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I know some people are working on open models trained with consent, but they are in the minority. Most people are angry with the large scraping model which plays no heed towards copyright and ethics. Maybe the language could be more nuanced, sure, but that's not the world we live in.

As for stopping people making money from it... As far as I can tell the only people making money from genai are:

  • Large megacorps that can easily throw up some hosting, throw a model on it and charge money for access to it.
  • Companies backed by venture capitalists looking for innovative applications of AI to find a gap in the market.
  • People who don't create things of artistic merit. For example, by writing a prompt, getting some art and putting it on a t-shirt.

I'd consider the second one to be the only "good" one. And hey, if you can make something cool out of things that you have explicit consent to use, go for it. But the other two I don't think are good for society.

And this is a zero sum game, so money that people are spending on AI are directly coming out of artist's hypothetical pockets. Which is a problem nowadays given the recent NFT stuff, worldwide economic problems and collapse of vast parts of their marketing and marketplace spaces.

The technology is cool, it's just grossly misused by people that are abusing it.

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