Once more with feeling and a dollop of frustration … Taking our work without permission or payment is theft.
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We live in an era where nothing that identifies us is owned by us.
What everyone fails to realise is - One day, there will be nobody left to buy AI services not if our talents are largely rendered obsolete! 😞 Immediate protect regulation is needed for all!
The stuff about needing AI laws "at least as competitive" as the EU essentially throws creative industries under the bus for a new shiny thing that as yet makes no money.
But the case of AI is a bit more serious than having rules so lax/absent that a fast fashion item can retail at £5 and be a viable product, though that's damaging enough to people & planet, in pursuit of profit.
Lit student reading the great works.
The output is plagiarised material based on human intellectual property - less legitimately argueable. Equivalent to an Eng Lit grad rewriting a novel just changing the names and locations.
Which is why, as you say, specific legislation is needed. In the present political environment where everyone is in the thrall of big tech that won't happen. For good or bad.
FWIW I think that legal clarity and an appropriate licensing scheme will be good for the AI sector too. I think existing AIs trained on polluted LLMs will crash and burn.
Not buy flour. Use a combine harvester to take wheat from a field. The farmer can just grow it again. And then go into a mill and grind it when the miller is not using his mill.
That's the LLLM AI business model. Take and not pay for inputs. Basically trading insolvent.
and so it goes.
Consequently, our copyright laws need to be redrafted to protect people into the twenty second century.