• isableandaking@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    I mean if they pay for it like everyone else does I don’t think it is a problem. Yes it will cost you billions and billions to do it correctly, but then you basically have the smartest creature on earth (that we know of) and you can replicate/improve on it in perpetuity. We still will have to pay you licensing fees to use it in our daily lives, so you will be making those billions back.

    Now I would say let them use anything that is old and freeware, textbooks, etc. government owned stuff - we sponsored it with our learning, taxes - so we get a percentage in all AI companies. Humanity gets a 51% stake in any AI business using humanity’s knowledge, so we are then free to vote on how the tech is being used and we have a controlling share, also whatever price is set, we get half of it back in taxes at the end of the year. The more you use it the more you pay and the more you get back.

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      16 hours ago

      They’re unprofitable as it is already. They’re not going to be able to generate enough upfront capital to buy and then enclose all of humanity’s previous works to then sell it back to us. I also think it would be heinous that they could enclose and exploit our commons in this manner. It belongs to all of us. Sure train it and use it, but also release it open (or the gov can confiscate it, fine with that as well). Anything but allowing those rat-snakes to keep it all for themselves.

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        45 minutes ago

        They can be even more unprofitable like Amazon was for years and years - and now they print money. I don’t think it’s a bad model, but it’s gonna come down to just a couple governments/companies having powerful AIs where we are not needed anymore - so if it’s privately owned it would spell doom for the human species or at least a huge portion of it, potential enslavement as well.

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      18 hours ago

      If it costs billions and billions, then only a handful of companies can afford to build an AI and they now have a monopoly on a technology that will eventually replace a chunk of the workforce. It would basically be giving our economy to Google.

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        48 minutes ago

        Yep exactly, that’s why you make it people owned. What is your alternative ? They do have companies/governments that can afford it even at these steep prices.

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      22 hours ago

      The owners of the copyrighted works should be paid in perpetuity too though, since part of their work goes into everything the AI spits out.

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        50 minutes ago

        I don’t see why I’m downvoted for this, but I don’t agree with this opinion - it’s like teaching a human being. If you buy everything once it’s still a hell of a bill - we are talking all books, all movies, all games, all software, all memes, all things - 1 of each is still trillions if you legally want to train your new thing on it.