alt Hacker News> People would not respect the mandate, and we would consider that illegal, and use the monopoly on force to take money out of their bank account.
Imagine a culture that would harness their frustration at being left out in the direction of innovating on their own.
Defining the status quo on things like watermarks by leading the field and then demonstrating how to act from the front.
Seems like they'd be more effective than one that settles for derision and calling for taxes and rules from the back of the pack, so they can presumably profit off the terrible evil things being built.
That's going to sound luddite and backwards, but to be completely honest, I'm not 100% "frustrated" about being "left out" from "far west"-style AI image generation.
At this point, really, I can think of exactly two use cases:
* cheaply producing ads
* cheaply producing fake news
And it's terrifying, and the people jumping in the bandwagon are scaring me.
There is this quote in "13 days" [1] where people are discussing the Cuban missile crises, and, while everyone is gladly / obliviously preparing for the upcoming nuclear holocaust, one gray-haired diplomat raises his hand and says "One of us in the room should be a coward" before asking for a more prudent option.
Maybe it's the age old tension between the "new world" racing forward and the "old world" hitting the brakes. Not necessarily a bad dynamic in the long run. [2]
Feel free to call me, and the whole block I live in, "coward" on this front.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Days_(film)
[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/French_address_on_Iraq_at_the...