cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/20220922
As policy makers in the UK weigh how to regulate the AI industry, Nick Clegg, former UK deputy prime minister and former Meta executive, claimed a push for artist consent would “basically kill” the AI industry.
Speaking at an event promoting his new book, Clegg said the creative community should have the right to opt out of having their work used to train AI models. But he claimed it wasn’t feasible to ask for consent before ingesting their work first.
“I think the creative community wants to go a step further,” Clegg said according to The Times. “Quite a lot of voices say, ‘You can only train on my content, [if you] first ask’. And I have to say that strikes me as somewhat implausible because these systems train on vast amounts of data.”
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work,” Clegg said. “And by the way if you did it in Britain and no one else did it, you would basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”
Where would we get our daily fix of uncanny valley photos without AI?
Why should artists be responsible for a shitty business plan of someone else? Especially if it ends up being monetarised by this specific someone and is not going to be public domain?
And good fucking riddance.
That’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.
In which case it is clearly industrialized piracy-at-scale and should be handled in the same way.
It’s funny how piracy is the worst thing ever. Till they do it
Oh no! Anyway…
Give him his full title, “meta shareholder Nick Clegg”.
Good.
This is how I feel about not paying rent to kill the landlord industry.
As the representative from the plagiarism industry I’m very upset that we now have to ask the permission or copyright holders to copy their work.
That’s what robbers say as well. “yeah if we ask everyone if we can take their stuff it would kill our industry.”
Then perish.
Why does he think that peasant care if this shiti industry exists?
And the man is not at all worried about hurting or killing the career of artists along the way.
I sure fucking hope it does
