I've been getting good at the new suite of Open AI tools, and they're pretty amazing - and I get why most of these ventures are flopping. It's just so easy to make something right now, and there's a mad race to sell the picks/shovels for the future (not just the chips, but all the scaffolding people are using to build things). Hackers are loving it.
Yes and if you look beyond the individual or small startups, tech companies (full of professional hackers) are the ones doing the most with AI right now.
I can say for sure that my small businesses will be doing a lot with AI, but almost totally at the back end - just to make life easier for the staff and management. The front end? That's still gonna be artisan, I think.
Artists should get paid when their work is used to train AI. I look for union contracts to cover this. It's pretty much impossible to pay them when it's USED.
Ah, I was hoping it would set a precedent. So, if I, for example, had uploaded every photo I took to flickr bitd (back in the day) do you think their Ts & Cs covered any such scenario?
Remember the NYTs lawsuit against openAI and MSFT? It’ll be 2 years in December but it looks to still be rolling along albeit slowly. Latest was attempts to dismiss because of DMCA which I know little about but is supposed to protect digital copyrights.
I've been getting good at the new suite of Open AI tools, and they're pretty amazing - and I get why most of these ventures are flopping. It's just so easy to make something right now, and there's a mad race to sell the picks/shovels for the future (not just the chips, but all the scaffolding people are using to build things). Hackers are loving it.
Yes and if you look beyond the individual or small startups, tech companies (full of professional hackers) are the ones doing the most with AI right now.
I can say for sure that my small businesses will be doing a lot with AI, but almost totally at the back end - just to make life easier for the staff and management. The front end? That's still gonna be artisan, I think.
Smort. Consumer backlash is strong.
Right. AI does some useful stuff.
Artists should get paid when their work is used to train AI. I look for union contracts to cover this. It's pretty much impossible to pay them when it's USED.
Ah, I was hoping it would set a precedent. So, if I, for example, had uploaded every photo I took to flickr bitd (back in the day) do you think their Ts & Cs covered any such scenario?
a legal analysis:
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/08/anthropic-compensation-competition.html
Try asking AI to read the t&c!
Remember the NYTs lawsuit against openAI and MSFT? It’ll be 2 years in December but it looks to still be rolling along albeit slowly. Latest was attempts to dismiss because of DMCA which I know little about but is supposed to protect digital copyrights.
I posted about this. I think it will be settled, NYT will get a big sum, and artists will get nothing.
In that case, artists did work-for-hire, so they should expect nothing, but a music company or photo library is something different.