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Importantly, although some AI companies and some defenders of the status quo have suggested filtering out infringing outputs as a possible remedy, such filters should in no case be understood as a complete solution. The very existence of potentially infringing outputs is evidence of another problem: the nonconsensual use of copyrighted human work to train machines. In keeping with the intent of international law protecting both intellectual property and human rights, no creator’s work should ever be used for commercial training without consent.
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
Gary Marcus
The problem, however, was that this idea of culture went rather too deep. It seemed to suggest that actual social differences — being a woman rather than a man, or a landowner rather than a window cleaner — didn’t really matter. And this was rather more convenient for men and landowners than it was for women and window cleaners. As long as culture brought us together in spirit, we could remain the mutually hostile, vastly unequal people we actually were. Culture seemed to make all the difference, and yet to make no difference at all.
Britain Is Stronger Divided
Terry Eagleton
The effect of conspiracy culture is the opposite of calm; it is to spread panic.
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