[m4x]

> Is there really a difference between a human flooding the market using AI and a human flooding the market using a printing press?

Yes. A printing press only floods the market with copies. An AI floods the market with new derivative works.

A human producing a single creative work and then flooding the market with copies leaves lots of room for other humans to produce their own novel work. An AI flooding the market with new derivative works leaves no such room.

I work with DNNs a lot professionally and remain a proponent of the technology, but what OpenAI et al are doing is highly exploitative and scummy. It’s also damaging their social licence and may end up setting the field back.

[Viliam1234]

"AI flooding the market with new derivative works" sounds nice if you are the consumer.

Now that we can finally have lots of amazing things almost for free, should we create artificial scarcity to protect the existing business models?

[m4x]

It’s potentially nice for the consumer. If I could get personalised audio and video content created on demand for me, that would be pretty amazing. But it does disincentivise people from creating content rather than just consuming it, and I think that could end up taking away a lot of the magic from life.