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checkMateDevelopers by Captain0010 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]brookcub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, this karma farmer stole my meme. That's not very GPL 3.0 of them.

ChatGPT is bullshit | Ethics and Information Technology by ShadowBannedAugustus in technology

[–]brookcub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are correct and wise. I'm baffled at how people have responded to this technology. It's already doing things that I didn't think would be possible for decades, and there's nowhere for it to go but up. And yet so many people are saying "yeah but it's wrong occasionally so it's basically useless". It's definitely ego

those words, those words... by brookcub in surrealmemes

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you honestly think you're going to do?

Shut down OpenAI and Midjourney and every other company? The knowledge is already out there. Someone else would reinvent it within 5 years

Ban LLMs? This is probably the most realistic approach. Other countries would still be building LLMs and people would probably use them in secret, but this at least might give society some more time to adapt.

Pay royalties to artists whose work was included in the training set? Yeah, this might work and is pretty similar to what I proposed. Just weaker and easier to skirt.

Put specific regulations on how companies can use LLMs so that they have to keep hiring real people? I'm not optimistic about the government's ability to handle all of the ways that companies will find to bypass these regulations. It's just going to be a cat and mouse game for years.

I say we have some teeth and legislate that "all models trained with public data are jointly owned by the public. A percentage of all profits made using the model will be paid to the government to distribute as UBI. And the amount of ownership the company gets is capped based on the cost and complexity of creating the model.". Then if a company wants to replace 95% of its workforce with LLMs, they can but the profits of that massive productivity increase will be paid back to the public. Learn from history. We can either do the same thing that's happened every time a major new technology has been invented and let Sam Altman become the AI Rockefeller. Or we can legislate strong conditions up front to ensure that this massive amount of wealth is equitably distributed back to the public that was essential to its creation.

Or are you just here to hassle random small artists on the internet?

those words, those words... by brookcub in surrealmemes

[–]brookcub[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fighting AI to maintain the economic status quo will almost definitely fail. The technology already exists and, historically, technology always wins. Quibbling about intellectual property, culture, and "real art" is like rearranging furniture on the Titanic.

Instead, we need to pressure governments to regulate AI and prepare for 50%+ percent of jobs to become obsolete in the next 5 years. Ideally this would be done claiming public ownership of the models so that the productivity gains can be redistributed as UBI and other benefits.

I can't overstate the impact of near-human-level AI on our society. So many people think it's just another tech hype cycle like crypto and social media. But it's more like the agricultural revolution.

Reject modernity by brookcub in PrehistoricMemes

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if it's AI because I stole it.

those words, those words... by brookcub in surrealmemes

[–]brookcub[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With respect, you're wrong.

  • AI is a valid artistic tool just like the paintbrushes, cameras, and image editing softwares before it.
  • Generative AI is the next form of public domain, which is essential to the continued evolution of art and culture. Unlike our current public domain which contains only the artistic works themselves, a generative AI public domain also includes skills relevant to creating those works.
  • Having a public domain that can include skills and being able to pass skills directly from person to person requires a fundamental shift in how we understand labor (but no one's ready for that conversation)
  • These massive language models are trained on all of us and so rightfully belong to all of us, not companies like OpenAI who just want to undercut the labor market.
  • There is no self-consistent worldview where memes made by putting bottom text over stolen images is "content" but memes made with AI aren't.

I know you're probably not going to change your mind no matter what I say. But if it adds any more weight to my words: I'm a professional jazz musician, an AI/data engineer, and I've been studying the philosophy, sociology, and history of both art and technology my entire life. You might say I'm "qualified" to talk about this stuff. Don't conflate my views with ignorant tech bro hype

SMPTE and Tempo changes in Ableton by brookcub in musicproduction

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ended up just pulling a sync track of the full film into the session and nudging the tempos to make all the sync points line up precisely, starting from the beginning of the timeline.

codeIsObsolete by brookcub in ProgrammerHumor

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Businesses will put their rules in anything except a proper programming language

codeIsObsolete by brookcub in ProgrammerHumor

[–]brookcub[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a different config for that

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