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  • Nick Clegg, former Meta executive and UK Deputy Prime Minister, has reiterated a familiar line when it comes to AI and artist consent.
  • He said that any push for consent would “basically kill” the AI industry.
  • Clegg added that the sheer volume of data that AI is trained on makes it “implausible” to ask for consent.
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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Let's hope it does.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago
[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago
[–] aaron@infosec.pub 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And not asking for it will kill whatever remains of the creative industries.

What do you want, a few years of ai slop followed by the more or less rapid decline of the internet (as it is overwhelmed with model collapse creative works and untrustable content) that will afford the likes of Clegg (in his role of 'meta' executive) a huge payout, or creative people having any hope of a sustained ability to make a living?

I know what I would prefer and I also know what is most likely going to happen. This is the result of decades of neo-liberal fossil-fuel-powered capitalism.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

So… what’s the down side to this bill?

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If asking for permission is going to kill an industry, then that industry should be killed.

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 8 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man on Wall Street; it belongs to the shareholders.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of ALL the brows?

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s implausible that I would pay for Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, etc.

When I can just build a server and buy a VPN connection.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Makes sense. Paying for all those services would kill my ability to support other industries. Fair game.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not pirating, I'm training the LLM that is in my skull. Don't worry, I won't remember the whole thing in a week and won't use it to create art out of what I saw.

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

file under: “unsurprising capitalist takes”

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I doubt it. With that $500 billion dollar grant, you can hire people to make art to train on. That's a LOT of money.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What makes you think that they'd do that?

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Is this going in for a vote? Where do I vote?

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Come on Disney! Use your god tier copyright lawyers and stop this AI shit for good.

Yay, kill it please.

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ha... He was the Lib Dem poster boy for a good decade. And they're something akin to pro-business libertarians. I wonder what Lib Dem Dep PM Clegg would have said to this!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He was the poster boy because he managed to rise to the rank of completely irrelevant, the highest level of office any lib dem has ever achieved.

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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, if it isn’t my old friend Mr. Nick Clegg, with a dick for a face and an ass for a head!

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

He admit it!

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly not a bad thing, I mean you're not going to OpenSource your AI so this is a good alternative

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes please.

[–] Siresly@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well let's hope it will.

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