Stuff posted on #Reddit is getting incorporated into #ChatGPT, Reddit and #OpenAI announced on Thursday. The new partnership grants OpenAI access to Reddit’s #DataAPI, giving the generative AI firm real-time access to Reddit posts. #AI #GenerativeAi

OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/openai-will-use-reddit-posts-to-train-chatgpt-under-new-deal/

OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal

Reddit has been eager to sell data from user posts.

^{Ars Technica}

Much as I dislike the theft of human labor that feeds many of the #generativeAI products we see today, I have to agree with @pluralistic that #copyright law is the wrong way to address the problem.

To frame the issue concretely: think of whom copyright law has benefited in the past, and then explain how it would benefit the individual creator when it is applied to #AI. (Hint: it won’t.)

Copyright law is already abused and extended to an absurd degree today. It already overreaches. It impoverishes society by putting up barriers to creation and allowing toll-collectors to exist between citizen artists and their audience.

*Labor* law is likely what we need to lean on. #unions and #guilds protect creators in a way that copyright cannot. Inequality and unequal bargaining power that lead to exploitation of artists and workers is what we need to address head-on.

Copyright will not save us.

“AI "art" and uncanniness”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand