the concept that copyright is about art or artistic value and not money, is about as attached to reality as the ai technorapture
this barely has to even be argued, in spirit or in practice. even the concept of "ownership" as ascribed to creators is basically just a right to sell the work or sublicense said "ownership"
i think her takes make a little more sense if you think of the infinite noise machine as the art object itself rather than any particular output of it. i obviously can't read her mind but if you think of a music-generating model as an interactive music toy rather than "a replacement for a musician", then her position makes way more sense. why wouldn't you want more people doing Poet Laureate Infinity? i think for her the crime isn't scraping, but scraping in service of overmarketed smoothed-over slop generators instead of actually interesting art
aside from the rest of the assheadedness of this comment, this jumps out to me:
Look, sorry dude, but if you vape, you haven't given up smoking. If you take nicotine pills, you haven't quit.
and, uh, no? if you stop smoking, you've stopped smoking. there's not yet solid scientific evidence that vaping is a reliable path to nicotine cessation but it is, in fact, not smoking.
if it is nicotine cessation you're talking about, then nicotine patches and pills are known effective tools. they're often prescribed to people quitting. in that case, taking pills is literally "quitting".
but let's be real: you don't care about either the physical act of burning tobacco or the medical act of kicking a nicotine dependency. you're just invoking "smoking" as linguistic shorthand for a(nother) group of people you feel smugly superior to for having problems you don't have
and people get very defensive about this one too. like i'm pretty confident that coolboy004 on reddit is not giving a nuanced delivery on the ethics of a company running an ai-powered call center when he types "screws will not replace us" in all caps on /r/fuckai, and yet
i think it sucks that we're stuck with, say, bluesky engineers genuinely trying to pull the most moronic variant of "but what if the stochastic text generator might have feelings in the future too", but we still need to be able to talk about why people feel the need to make "clanka with the hard r" jokes (answer it's racism)
from what i see, white people simply clamor for a context in which they're "allowed" to finally call someone the n-word, and are willing to accept substitute targets for their racism
add in a protective cloak of "it's ironic and a joke and YOU'RE the real racist for pointing this out" and you get a whole lot of people who are extremely okay slinging around barely modified racial slurs
dictionaries are obsolete bricks remembers that they are useful that's why they're actually ai when you think about it
replacing ChatGPT with a script that replies "Great, I'll finish that for you by ${Date.Now() + 86400}"
stolen from cohost but i appreciate the succinctness of "capitalism make computer bad"
and so i pass on the burden, like a virus, to all those who seek truth but must instead whip out their phone to scan a QR code and then get welcome-pinged 18 times in #general
50% success rate? sorry, all this for a coin flip?
you definitely did in fact say that the idea that "copyright is about trading art for money" is bollocks. that is in fact a thing you said, straightforwardly
compare and contrast with "real artists do it for love, not money", which is a thing nobody in this entire thread said
and wouldn't you know it, a complete devolution into full-tilt """debate""" shadowboxing is my cue to turn off notifications. best of luck in the ring, i hear the spectre of communism has a nasty left hook