These tools will make it easier to create new forms of art. Soon a new art form will arrive and there will be new types of artists. It will force existing creatives into new paradigms.

Relax.

“We are in the early birth pains of a new species.” - Terence McKenna

>So, stop whining about people literally in poverty trying to make ends meet being mad at you for these giant tech companies taking what little they have left

These people are threatening and undermining open-source AI development, which is the only foothold people like you, I and yes, their own stupid asses, likely have into the new world just around the corner. They are quite literally enabling corporate capture of emerging technologies at a critical point.

I'll be blunt so all our new members from Twitter understand the gravity of the situation: I'd rather see every artist protesting this starve to death in the street. Don't make us choose.

So far, this feels like a fight between 2 groups of pro-capitalists: Those who believe IP law is something that needs to be made stronger, instead of abolished, and those who are okay with corporations controlling our future.

Unfortunately, the rest of us are being harmed by both of their antics.

Quite simply there are actors in play trying to steal the future from us. What are we gonna do? Can't sit around all day. If you're all in the singularity we gotta fuck with these Twitter types big time. Pretty sure they're covertly funded by people with certain interests regarding the proles. Can't let that pass. Never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon.

Hoping AI helps most to augment humans better. Faster and better collaborative tooling that helps creatives get into a type of flow that wasn't possible before, or took large teams to accomplish.

Maybe learning how to prompt AI will be the biggest skill in the near future?

It’s not hurting progress at all though, also the people working on these programs(OpenAI/Stability)know they are protected through the legal system, they got their datasets from websites who have the rights to republish users data because their users signed a terms of service permitting that these social sites could share their data in exchange for profit, this is how social media websites have always made money and it’s also the reason why you can use them for “free”. The cases are going to fall apart the very moment the TOS are pulled out. These people agreed to do the very thing they are now protesting, the issue is they don’t understand how social media works, nor did they bother to read the terms of service.

It’s not going to hold up in court, social media websites have been selling their users data legally for 25 years now. If they couldn’t do that we wouldn’t have any social media at all…

So... shady terms of service are a good thing?

> They are quite literally enabling corporate capture of emerging technologies at a critical point.

You're enabling it far more by setting the bar at zero for allowing companies to have very shady terms of use.

Don't tell me you read every terms of use agreement........ Lol.

What we need are terms of use regulations. But, you're standing in the way of that too and don't seem to think it's important, so you might as well accept your future of corporate slavery.

Lol.

I'm funded by my passion and watching my passion get corrupted by a tool and a bunch of mindless techies.

And, I'm watching you all defend corporations and upvote people who say things like "this big companies are on our side."

Give me a fucking break.

They’ve been selling your data since the late 90s. And while you could argue they’re using your data without permission (it kind of is, I agree) it doesn’t change the fact you agreed to let them do it. The business couldn’t function if they couldn’t do that, so they host your content, but they get rights to share it with who they want.

Eric Snowden has been saying this for years but nobody ever listened, it’s just that now massive datasets are being use to train neural networks everyone’s freaking out about it, this is nothing new.

> “We are in the early birth pains of a new species.” - Terence McKenna

Sounds like anti-humanism. Are you sure that new species isn't the borg?

So, you think its a good thing that Adobe has a hidden term of use to use your private data to train their AI, even though you pay them a subscription?

This is not an arms race. It’s a fallacy. It’s a battle for monopoly.

Those being targeted by „upset artists“ are not the big corps!

Wake up, wake up!

> It’s a battle for monopoly.

Yes, it is. But it's deeper than that.

I hope it won’t hold up in court. But sadly as a German I experienced what usually happens, we had the upload filter problem just a few years ago… Our German politicians promising the upload filters are not going to come, people saying hey relax it won’t happen… the upload filters came.

That’s not the same thing, that’s a paid subscription model. Social Media websites make money by getting rights to share your data, and in return you get to use their platform for free. Every time you see an advertisement or promotion it’s because Twitter/Facebook/Reddit sold your data off to Advertisers.

You don’t know how these companies work. They couldn’t pay to host the servers to keep the datacenters running if they couldn’t republish data for profit. It’s an integral part of the business.

Deeper? Would you mind to specify?

I'm not anti-corporate, I'm anti-monopoly. The corps can do their thing and we'll do ours. There's space for everyone in this growing frontier.

Except luddites. They can die in a hole.

I believe your reading comprehension's really far behind pal because we're doing the exact opposite. If only you knew how much will change.

Had a solid SAT verbal and I have a college degree so I doubt that's the problem

IP is a tool oh the Corp class. Fuck IP in every form

I dont think prompting AI will be hard in the future at all

Was just thinking in regards to specificity for the use case you want to develop with AI assistance.