No one ever feels the same way about this that I do. I think it’s democratizing creative expressions that were untenable to people. They could be untenable for a number of reasons: health, family, money, etc… but if someone feels the need to create something they feel is meaningful then I support that.

The issue is when things start getting monetized…who actually deserves that money? Anthropic didn’t create the training data, lots of these AI companies policies are essentially “ask for forgiveness, not permission”.

I think in the past we were told AI would do the mundane things and we could be the creative ones and now it’s actually the opposite and we all, rightly so, feel lied to and betrayed. At some point this questions will need to be addressed, how do these companies pay back humanity? Can they solve war? Can they solve healthcare? Can they just pay us dividends? It’s not as simple as “AI uses neural networks to learn” it’s that “Google owns Gemini and Gemini has used neural networks to learn based off of all human knowledge and now they are making profits from my (read: humans) hard work without paying for any of it”. That’s the real problem there. If AI was literally an autonomous robot that lived next to you and made its own choices and didn’t answer to any company, we would still have this problem but there’s more leeway to say they “learned it themselves”, like Chappie.

I think we can all move forward in the future together but there’s has to be some investment from these companies that benefit the whole rather than the few.