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People who are alive can have a company steal their entire corpus without recompense, while the descendants of people who died decades ago can get still get paid for content created by their ancestors.
Right.
But how else could Disney afford to own everyone else's rights and properties? Why not think about the little guy! (Mickey mouse is little, right?)
That being said, I find it weird people are going after training data for llm's after completely ignoring the models built specifically to compete with and take advantage of people's unconscious habits and lifestyles.
AI in general will be very important to comfortably survive the near future as a species. Data is an important part of that.
we absolutely need to do something about the megacorps funneling every new gain as a society into increasing the already absurd wealth divide. The technology is good. The general web scraping isn't bad if the tool is not specifically evil in function. We just need to as a global community demand that the technology be used to benefit everyone equally as it continues to be developed.