@unusual_whales I was thinking about this. We say it's stealing because AIs are trained on stuff thats in the world. Let's say AI creates a song. Copyright theft because it was trained on the music of other artists. But if I create a song myself, put something together in my garage, that's an original creation of mine. But wait, wasn't I trained on all the work of all the other artists in the world? I heard their stuff, so like it or not, I'm trained on their music.
Maybe just being human is a collective experience. None of us exists in a void. If we can give ourselves a hall pass that sure, we have heard other artists' songs on the radio or whatever, and we have read books, either from owning them or getting them at the library or whatever, if we can give ourselves a pass, how much of a pass can we give to AI? It is just also existing in our human world.
So when an AI writes a song, can it really be theft just because it has heard the songs of other artists? #philosophy #ai #culturalappropriation #music #books