> I think most people who have thought about it understand the impact AI models seem destined to have on writing
Go back to the beginning of social media, and tell me that "most people who had thought about it had understood the impact social media would have on society". It is really not a given. And that is my criticism: we see from history that it is not straightforward to understand the impact of new technology, but we engineers keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
> Copyright is not the correct tool to address it
Maybe not, that's right. I don't think anyone disagrees. The issue - at least from the point of view of artists - is more that some people (including authors and artists) want the problem addressed, and others (including engineers) just want to make money with their new toy and don't care much about addressing the problem.
> doesn't that imply that AI is better at generating useful entertainment than humans are?
I don't think so, no. It is maybe economically more successful, but I think it is clear that what is good for the economy is not necessarily good for society.
> however, it applies to fiction content first
Well... that is ignoring all the black hat use-cases, going from phishing to political mass manipulation, I would say :-)
Go back to the beginning of social media, and tell me that "most people who had thought about it had understood the impact social media would have on society". It is really not a given. And that is my criticism: we see from history that it is not straightforward to understand the impact of new technology, but we engineers keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
> Copyright is not the correct tool to address it
Maybe not, that's right. I don't think anyone disagrees. The issue - at least from the point of view of artists - is more that some people (including authors and artists) want the problem addressed, and others (including engineers) just want to make money with their new toy and don't care much about addressing the problem.
> doesn't that imply that AI is better at generating useful entertainment than humans are?
I don't think so, no. It is maybe economically more successful, but I think it is clear that what is good for the economy is not necessarily good for society.
> however, it applies to fiction content first
Well... that is ignoring all the black hat use-cases, going from phishing to political mass manipulation, I would say :-)