alt Hacker NewsCompanies 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.
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Absolutely, I am sceptical of AI omin many ways, but primarily it is about the AI companies and my lack of trust in them. I find it unfortunate that all of the clearly brilliant engineers working at these companies are to preoccupied with always chasing newer and better model trying to reach the dream of AGI do not stop and ask themselves: who are they working for? What happens if they eventually manage to create a model that can replace most or even all of human computer work?
Why whould anyone think that these companies will contribute to the good of humanity when they are even bigger and more powerful, when they seem to care so little now?
> valued at $300 billion
Irrelevant really. Invoking this in the argument shows the basis is jealousy. They are clearly valued as such not because they collected all the data and stored in some database. Your local library is not worth 300 billion.
> For the majority of interesting output people have paid for art, music, software, journalism
Absolutely and demonstrably false. Music and art predate Copyright by hundreds if not thousands of years.
> But you know that already and are justifying the industry that pays your bills.
Huh, ad hominem much? I find it rich that the whole premise of your argument was some "art, music, software, journalist" was entitled to some payment, but suddenly it is a problem when "my industry" (somehow you assume I work in AI) is getting paid?