If the large corporations can use IP to crush artists, artists might as well try to milk every cent they can from their labor. I dislike IP laws as well, and you can never use the masters' tools to dismantle their house, but you can sure as shit do damage and get money for yourself.

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Luckily, AI aren't the master's tools, they're a public technology. That's why they're already trying their had at regulatory capture. Just like they're trying to destroy encryption. Support open source development, It's our only chance. Their AI will never work for us. John Carmack put it best.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AI algorithms aren't the masters tools in the sense that anyone can set up a model using free code on cheap tech, but they do require money to improve and produce quality products. The training data requires labor of artists to produce, the computers the model runs on require labor to make, and the electricity that allows the model to continuously improve requires, you guessed it, labor. Labor will always, and should always, be expensive, making AI most useful to those with money to spend.

IP is only one tool in the masters' tool box, but capitalism is their box, and the other forms of capital can be used to swing the public's tools far harder than a wage laborer.

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hence why it's important that open source models should keep the support of the public. If they have to close shop, what remains will be those made by tech giants. They will be censored, they will be neutered, except if you pay enough for them. The power should remain with the artists, and not those with the money.

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"They have the plant, but we have the power."

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