“It’s bad enough to remove this miraculous process from a creature with the divine spark of consciousness and give it over to an inert profit-generating theft machine. To actually prevent human hands and minds from creating art and knowledge, all the hours of numinous struggle condensed into some recognizable form, so that someone, talentless, can make money off a program that generates a mangled, perverse simulacrum of art and knowledge reveals the spiritual corruption of the times.”
AI is a Performance of Progress, Not the Real Thing — Population Balance
It would be reasonable to see the AI rollout as history’s most diversified form of mass theft. The initial “training” of generative AI programs involved stealing copyright-protected intellectual property across fields of knowledge production, the arts, media, virtually every form of culture. Many jobs, too, are threatened by this act of theft.
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