alt Hacker NewsWhy the AI hate? How is it different from sharing your knowledge with another individual or writing a book to share it?
> AI companies are not paying anyone for that piece of information
So? For the vast majority of human existence, paying for content was not a thing, just like paying for air isn't. The copyright model you are used to may just be too forced. Many countries have no moral qualms about "pirating" Windows and other pieces of software or games (they won't afford to purchase anyway.) There's no inherent morality or entitlement for author receiving payment for everything they "create" (to wit, Bill Gates had to write a letter to Homebrew Computer Club to make a case for this, showing that it was hardly the default and natural viewpoint.) It's just a legal/social contract to achieve specific goals for the society. Frankly the wheels of copyright have been falling off since the dawn of the Internet, not LLM.
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Its different because the AI model will then automate the use of that knowledge, which for most people in this forum is how they make their livelihood. If OpenAI were making robots to replace plumbers, I wouldn't be surprised when plumbers said "we should really stop giving free advice and training to these robots." Its in the worker's best interest to avoid getting undercut by an automated system that can only be built with the worker's free labor. And its in the interest of the company to take as much free labor output (e.g. knowledge) as possible to automate a process so they can profit.
Companies valued at $300 billion or more are not another individual and people are not "sharing" their works. The companies are stealing them.
For the majority of interesting output people have paid for art, music, software, journalism. But you know that already and are justifying the industry that pays your bills.
These vigorously held and loudly proclaimed opinions don't matter.
Don't waste the mental energy. They're more interested in performative ignorance and argument than anything productive. It's somewhere between trying to engage Luddites during the industrial revolution and having a reasonable discussion with /pol/ .
They'd rather cling to what they know than embrace change, or get in rhetorical zingers, and nothing will change that except a collision with reality.
> For the vast majority of human existence, paying for content was not a thing
Books were bought, teachers were paid so no, for most of human history information was not free.