[dbingham]

That value is only great if it's shared equitably with the rest of the planet.

If it's owned by a few, as it is right now, it's an existential threat to the life, liberty, and pursuit of a happiness of everyone else on the planet.

We should be seriously considering what we're going to do in response to that threat if something doesn't change soon.

[UncleMeat]

Yep. The "wouldn't it be great if we had robots do all the labor you are currently doing" argument only works if there is some plan to make sure that my rent gets paid other than me performing labor.

[Spivak]

It depends if you're the only one out of a job. If it really is everyone then the answer will likely be some variant of metaphorically or literally killing your landlord in favor of a different resource allocation scheme. I put these kinds of things in a "in that world I would have bigger problems" bucket.

[ricudis]

And that's the ultimate fail of capitalist ethics - the notion that we must all work just so we can survive. Look at how many shitty and utterly useless jobs exist just so people can be employed on them to survive.

This has to change somehow.

"Machines will do everything and we'll just reap the profits" is a vision that techno-millenialists are repeating since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, but we haven't seen that happening anywhere.

For some strange reason, technological progress seem to be always accompanied with an increase on human labor. We're already past the 8-hours 5-days norm and things are only getting worse.

[integralof6y]

> That value is only great if it's shared equitably with the rest of the planet.

I think this should be an axiom which should be respected by any copyright rule.

[joquarky]

You are correct, but the real problem is that copyright needs complete reform.

Let's not forget the basis:

> [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Is our current implementation of copyright promoting the progress of science and useful arts?

Or will science and the useful arts be accelerated by culling back the current cruft of copyright laws?

For example, imagine if copyright were non-transferable and did not permit exclusive licensing agreements.

[tadfisher]

AI is going to implode within 2 years. Once it starts ingesting its own output as training data it is going to be at best capped at its current capability and at worst even more hallucinatory and worthless.

[bigfudge]

The mistake you make here is to forget that the training data of the original models was also _full_ or errors and biases — and yet they still produced coherent and useful output. LLM training seems to be incredibly resilient to noise in the training set.

[joquarky]

Forget what it eats to continue improving.

Realize what it already has.

A foundational language model with no additional training is already quite powerful.

And that genie isn't going back into the bottle.

[mafuy]

Nonsense. Some of the current best AI models were specifically trained on AI output.