Why is everyone have to be paid for everything? The real dillema is wether AI is learning or is it remixing and the science is on the side of learning while all grifters on the side of remixing. All of these lawsuits like the gettyimages one are for profit. They are grifting off this and people so blindly fall for this propaganda thinking they are protecting "the little guy" when big majority of world's copyright is owned by mega corporations. Fuck that.

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if you would be so adamant to defend AI if it could copy your work, and even your exact style by prompting your public name. I am going to bet on no

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

I'm a software engineer and AI can already do a lot of my programming and it's great! Most of my software is FOSS - so your bet is very wrong.

If somehow AI kills programming and puts me out of job then that's great! I'll find another job and we'll be living in objectively better world because code is suddenly infinitely more accessible and powerful :)

So, to me this protectionism thought process is very alien. Especially when it comes to something relatively meaningless as entertainment.

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

When you chose a FOSS license you explicitly say that you are ok with derivatives of your work. These artists never distributed their work under a license where they allowed AI to be trained on it and make derivatives of it.

AI is far from replacing programmers. It can replace some simple boilerplate, but is nowhere near understanding the logic behind applications. So you simply say this knowing you are safe for tens of years more.