Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry

Look at the birth of Hollywood.

>In the early 1900s, most motion picture camera and equipment patents were held by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey, which often sued filmmakers to stop their productions. To escape this, filmmakers began moving to Los Angeles

If IP is respected, the AI companies will flee to China. The problem for Meta with that is that China does not respect IP. Meta wants to have their cake and eat it too.

Software has already been gutted of almost all IP protections. It's time the other industries caught up. Why should Google be allowed to steal a Java API, but can't steal DJ Razamataz's mix tape song ordering? IP has failed and clinging to it will ensure some other country will win AI.

> - Nick Clegg, former Meta executive and UK Deputy Prime Minister, has reiterated a familiar line when it comes to AI and artist consent.

> - He said that any push for consent would “basically kill” the AI industry.

> - Clegg added that the sheer volume of data that AI is trained on makes it “implausible” to ask for consent.

What we should really is just have the government give artists money to make works for the public domain and then recover it from companies who use it with taxes.

Why do executives think it’s acceptable to ban humans from destroying capital by ignoring IP and yet simultaneously say the opposite with regard to software agents?

This whole conversation is sociopathic stupidity of who should be allowed to rob from who and trying to qualify the obvious hypocrisy against unqualified trends.