[satyanash]

> narrative only got picked up because people needed a reason to demonize evil corps

Either they aren't evil in which case they're being demonized, or they're already evil in which case demonization is redundant.

Keeping aside the motives of people, what is clear is that scale effects of AI cannot be ignored. An AI "learning" millions of pieces of content in a short span is not the same as humans spending time, effort and energy to replicate someone's style. You can argue that its 'neural nets' in both cases, but the massive scale is what separates the two.

A village is not a large family, a city is not a large village, ... and all that.

[SilasX]

>Either they aren't evil in which case they're being demonized, or they're already evil in which case demonization is redundant.

If you were trying to be charitable rather than clever, you would have read "evil corps" as "corps that the critic regards as evil".

>Keeping aside the motives of people, what is clear is that scale effects of AI cannot be ignored.

Okay, so just give some kind of standard -- any clear, articulable standard -- for how and why the scale matters. It's a cop-out to just rest your case on a hand-wavy "it changes at scale".