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> If I know anything I create is just going to be hoovered up and input into somebody's AI model

but today, without an AI model, anything you create is already going to be learnt and studied (if it is worth studying of course). What's the difference, but speed?

> they get 99% of the profit

Why is that a priori the assumption? What stops you from getting a profit?

> I do 99% of the work

you did 0.000001% of the work, since the model contains billions of other works from which they train.



> What stops you from getting a profit?

OpenAI and Stable Diffusion not paying for their dataset. I don’t believe GitHub asked for my contribution to Copilot.


But you weren't receiving profit from your works originally? So therefore, why does it matter what someone else was doing?


If someone jacks my car while I'm asleep, races it, and wins a prize, and returns it before I wake up, they haven't deprived me of anything, profited off my property, and it's still wrong.

Profit and deprivation are not and never will be a good tests in determining things like this.


> jacks my car

no, they downloaded your car.




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