Really sorry to hear that my comment above came off as aggressive. It was very much not meant like that. One mistake is that I too quickly read the comments above—that was my bad.
In terms of the specifics, I find your longer take interesting, though as I’m sure you expect, I disagree with a lot of it. There seem to be a lot of important background assumptions on this topic that both of us have.
I agree that there are a bunch of people on the left who are pushing for many bad regulations and ideas on this. But I think at the same time, some of them raise some certain good points (i.e. paranoia about power consolidation)
I feel like it’s fair to say that power is complex. Things like ChatGPT’s AI art will centralize power in some ways and decentralize it in others. On one hand, it’s very much true that many people can create neat artwork that they couldn’t before. But on the other, a bunch of key decisions and influence are being put into the hands of a few corporate actors, particularly ones with histories of being shady.
I think that some forms of IP protection make sense. I think this conversation gets much messier when it comes to LLMs, for which there just hasn’t been good laws yet on how to adjust for them. I’d hope that future artists who come up with innovative techniques could get some significant ways of being compensated for their contributions. I’d hope that writers and innovators could similarly get certain kinds of credit and rewards for their work.
Thanks for providing more detail into your views.
Really sorry to hear that my comment above came off as aggressive. It was very much not meant like that. One mistake is that I too quickly read the comments above—that was my bad.
In terms of the specifics, I find your longer take interesting, though as I’m sure you expect, I disagree with a lot of it. There seem to be a lot of important background assumptions on this topic that both of us have.
I agree that there are a bunch of people on the left who are pushing for many bad regulations and ideas on this. But I think at the same time, some of them raise some certain good points (i.e. paranoia about power consolidation)
I feel like it’s fair to say that power is complex. Things like ChatGPT’s AI art will centralize power in some ways and decentralize it in others. On one hand, it’s very much true that many people can create neat artwork that they couldn’t before. But on the other, a bunch of key decisions and influence are being put into the hands of a few corporate actors, particularly ones with histories of being shady.
I think that some forms of IP protection make sense. I think this conversation gets much messier when it comes to LLMs, for which there just hasn’t been good laws yet on how to adjust for them. I’d hope that future artists who come up with innovative techniques could get some significant ways of being compensated for their contributions. I’d hope that writers and innovators could similarly get certain kinds of credit and rewards for their work.