OpenAI Pleads That It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them...
ATTN: Sam Altman
Please be aware that photographs of my dick and balls are freely available for OpenAI to use.
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"The longer the Icon of Sin is on Earth, the more powerful he will become"
It's impossible for my "Sitting on my ass while Sam Altman sends me $1000 a day" business to make money without Sam Altman sending me $1000 a day. Do the right thing, Sam. For business.
"Help my business isn't profitable unless we (read: everybody else) move heaven and earth."
It’s impossible for me to make money in my “selling other people’s copyrighted materials without their permission or without paying them” business as well, can British parliament do something for me?
Lol they're the only ones who'll get the exception. It'll remain the same for plebs.
I support the endless legal challenges that use this as precedent, at least. Maybe after the lawsuit case load goes up past the quadruple digits they'll reconsider individual exceptions to copyright infringement
If a burglar went to the British Parliament and asked to be allowed to loot other people's properties because his entire business model depends on it, the only difference would be that the burglar is a two-bit sack of shit, while Sam Altman is a billionnaire sack of shit.
Pretty sure that was basically how the East India Company worked
Bit idea: the
moves all their illicit activities onto a smartphone app and rebrands themselves as a fintech startup. Then whenever the law tries to stop them they lobby to congress that the oppressive regulatory regime is hindering technological progress.Ayy Tone! I made an AI! We gotta get in on this tech racket bullshit, they're just giving money away! This is gonna be bigger than the garbage racket!
How would someone even go about finding out their specific creative work has been scraped and stolen by these AI companies? Back when I was active people would just steal my [commissioned] work outright and claim they were me. Now it's buried under a thousand layers of algorithmically-generated bullshit that itself is based on previously referenced work.
The "I made this" comic pops into my head on a weekly basis now.
I believe someone made a tool that can search their database. Either that, or the tool is their own. Either way, you can search the database.
Here is an example. But it's limited to flickr
https://exposing.ai/
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