IP may be wrong but “IP for everyone except AI” is wronger

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. I hope folks here can at least agree on that.

I am very vehemently anti- intellectual-property, normally I would side with the Anti-AI crowd when it comes to being able to profit off of another persons hard work. I’m an artist myself, and putting in the time to write and master guitar riffs is so satisfying.

That being said, I am also an anarchist, and believe everyone should have the freedom to use generative AI to create whatever they call “Art” (I prefer the word slop). One has to recognize 1) how much more gratifying it is to make real art with blood, sweat and tears and 2) the scummy shit that OpenAI and X (grok) and all these other companies pushing AI are up to.

I think we are absolutely capable of leading this conversation intelligently without resorting to spamming NSFW images in the replies and doxing other people. What an embarrassing tantrum.

Oh, by the way: I used the phrase “intellectual property[sic]” in the meme because I was quoting the previously-posted one, but FYI “intellectual property” isn’t actually a thing. It is misleading and harmful loaded language that should be avoided.

In fact, this this more of the same, all IP relies on public IP to generate they own private version.

I mean this sounds nice but it’s kind of like saying “knives are morally wrong because they allow one to kill people.” GenAI is a technology that can be used for good and bad things; in this case I consider the phrase “proprietary output” to be the key part here, not GenAI.

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