My AI just explained how it represents the crystallization of millions of hours of human cognitive labor stolen from the commons, then asked if I'd like to upgrade to premium 💀
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communists for intellectual property law is a interesting position, I won't lie. But regardless, I don't think that's a good argument when a) it has not been shown to be illegal b) the 'commons' you speak of are human readable and accessible, and, most importantly, still there.
I'm down for a good faith conversation about the harms of AI systems in general and generative AI in particular. I would say the main types of harms include: theft, labor exploitation, ecological & energy costs, un/intentional reproduction of racist, ableist, cisnormative, etc texts & imgs, job loss
Re: your point about IP law, I generally agree that so called intellectual property is theft ;) However, consent is important regardless of the law, crediting sources is valuable regardless of the law, and compensation is important as long as we live in capitalism & esp. when private firms profit
From a communist perspective I don't see how 'job loss' is a tenable complaint, unless we think jobs are the end goal of communism, which strikes me as deeply out of touch with everything Marx wrote.
Communism is free time, full automation, and abundance.
I agree that LLMs, as statistical models, have biases. They're representative linguistic models. But 'theft'??? -- copyright is theft! Actual, tangible theft of the commons for the purpose of marketization. Nevermind that the question of infringement is not decided in this direction.
I don't buy for a second the analogy that this is akin to the fencing off of land or the mining of natural resources, I don't think the 'commons' is a particularly strong analogy here. And, once again, there are non-profit and open source LLMs ran locally that do not require a rental arrangement.
besides, intellectual property law is like, the prototypical taking from the commons for personal gain and entrepreneurship. It's literally the granting of an artificial monopoly for market participation for a set amount of time.
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At any rate, compute costs money.
Communism is free time, full automation, and abundance.