Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.
Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William Alsup, seemingly did not. Alsup allegedly failed to conduct a “rigorous analysis” of the potential class and instead based his judgment on his “50 years” of experience, Anthropic said.
Just a tool? It’s a machine of slavery and total control over the poor. What the hell, what other tool? Are you blind? It’s a goddamn threat to independence!
It’s like praising the weapons that will be used to shoot you tomorrow. “What a useful tool, it’s a pity that it’s not me who’s shooting, but at me”, is this how you’re going to justify yourself? Because your comments say exactly that!
That is true of every tool.
Laws, morals, guns, religion, a pointy stick, a hammer, a knife, a computer. All of them able to liberate or oppress.
The gun doesn’t need to exist for me to be shot at, if they didn’t have guns they would use the pointy stick. Because a technology has no intention of its owns the intention lies in the wielder. Do you not understand how tools work?
So I ask, should we then “freeze” technological progress so to speak? Because tools can be used for very bad things therefore we should not develop new tools. Should we raze all of civilization and go back to the caves? How do we stop ourselves from progressing technologically again? We will make tools no matter what, we evolved for that. So is the logical conclusion then that we should end the human species so that tools cannot be used for wrong?
No, not to return to the caves, but to erase my shameful existence with no hope of a second chance.
But okay, AI is like a nuclear weapon, I think we should come up with a characteristic for the tools, otherwise without explanations it can get confusing, AI is clearly not a simple tool, it is almost like a nuclear weapon, that is, it is some kind of combat type or something? Yes, it is difficult, but if we can typify everything and not call everything the same, then many things will become clearer and there will be no stupid claims, you understand?