You’re completely missing my point.

There’s a big difference. You don’t blame the hammer used to assault someone. There had to be a human to initiate the action.

AI seems to be directly impacting your life in a way that it doesn’t for me. But I agree with you 100% that the way they’re training AI right now is immoral and amounts to intellectual theft.

And I can’t think of the terms right now, but I’ve heard of methods to essentially poison training data by running images through some software that leaves watermarks that are virtually imperceptible by humans. I think that’s cool as fuck and I love to see it happening. Hit the fuckers in the training data. Which will then hit their bank accounts.

Lets take something that is meaningful to me though; US Politics.

Yeah, I’m angry right now, but if I let that anger interfere with how I see and interact with the political landscape, I’ll be fighting ghosts and boogymen while the real monsters are free to do as they please.

Same goes for AI, same goes for any just cause.

Know your enemy, not the boogyman sent to distract you.

I don’t think people should be allowed to, and I never said as much.

The bad things being done are being done -with- AI, not because of it. My stance is one of accepting that it’s a thing that exists in the world and it will not go away. Any energy you put into erasing it is going to be wasted. It’s here.

The humans gatekeeping the AI are the problem, not the AI.

The fact that most of humanity has given our inherent power to money, and that money (in the hands of the few) controls the world is another problem.

The absolute best thing we can do as individuals is embrace AI. The more you understand it, the more influence you will have over the path it takes, but it will not go away without some global extinction level event.

I didn’t say anything about right or wrong. I’m talking about what is and why it will remain so.

I’m not trying to be an ass, but the genie is out of the bottle. You’d have as much luck campaigning to shut down the internet in the 90’s.

Trust me on this one… Put your energy toward navigating a world -with- AI. As long as money is relevant, those who have it will dictate the course of civilization, and there is far too much money behind AI.