Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.
Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William Alsup, seemingly did not. Alsup allegedly failed to conduct a “rigorous analysis” of the potential class and instead based his judgment on his “50 years” of experience, Anthropic said.
Your take is illogical, unless you are arguing for some sort of pre industrial communism which is never going to happen because I think any sane person can agree that technology has vastly improved our lives. It has introduced pains sure, but everything is a process.
But assuming that you can admit that technology has improved the quality of life of humans, then it follows that you’ll look at any piece of technology as what it is: a tool. It doesn’t matter what the origins of it are really, only what it can do. Because every major technology of the last 2 centuries is a product of capitalism, that is inevitable because we live in a capitalist world. Would you argue that we should stop using technologies that were created with capitalistic interests? Why don’t you throw out your computer? Should we stop using heavy machinery and power tools?
Oh and speaking of computers did computers and automated production lines destroy the ability for people to make a living? Maybe temporarily and then new jobs popped up. But ok maybe this time that doesn’t happen. How do you think the system sustains itself without collapsing? I think it is easy to see that it would trigger some kind of revolution. Certainly a new social contract will be needed. This is capitalism creating the conditions for socialism to exist. Something something internal contradictions. Etc etc.
Whether it’s environmentally harmful is an argument against all technology especially in the early stages as they have all been energy inefficient. In which case maybe you should be arguing that we should have never left the caves. Like I said elsewhere the inevitability of any new technology is that it will be inefficient and we make it more efficient as we develop it further.
And listen I don’t think AI is all that great, it really cannot take most people’s jobs at this point. But it is a step in the direction of full automation.
But I want to understand exactly where you are coming from, like do you think that we should stop all technological progress and simply maintain our civilization in stasis or roll it back to some other time or what? Because I really cannot understand where this type of arguments come from as virtually any kind of human activity impacts the environment, that’s literally our adaptation. AI is not the issue here itself it simply were we get our energy from. Thankfully solar, despite the best attempts of the idiots at the White House, continues growing at an unprecedented rate. Because, like I said, everything is a process. I get the impatience, but the reality is that we simply cannot state a destination and hope to be there simply because it is the right place to be, one needs to go through the steps to get there. I don’t know if that makes sense.