I’m not against using AI for personal entertainment or education or anything, although paying for AI software does benefit companies I don’t support. As a principle I’m against ripping off artists. To me the recent news of Meta using Libgen to teach their AI is the worst kind of offence. Private lives have been ruined because of piracy and now the richest companies in the world are abusing the works of others.
We agree on that to some part. I don’t disagree with piracy, I’m a free culture person. But I hate that big companies took images for free and then charge money for the result. I’ll never pay for any AI tool or to any AI company in my life, because of that. I think the moral philosophy here would be “taken for free, offered for free”. Thus I only have used tools that are “open sourced” (not 100% but close enough) and that I can self host for free. And I would never charge money for anything done with those tools.
I’m not against using AI for personal entertainment or education or anything, although paying for AI software does benefit companies I don’t support. As a principle I’m against ripping off artists. To me the recent news of Meta using Libgen to teach their AI is the worst kind of offence. Private lives have been ruined because of piracy and now the richest companies in the world are abusing the works of others.
We agree on that to some part. I don’t disagree with piracy, I’m a free culture person. But I hate that big companies took images for free and then charge money for the result. I’ll never pay for any AI tool or to any AI company in my life, because of that. I think the moral philosophy here would be “taken for free, offered for free”. Thus I only have used tools that are “open sourced” (not 100% but close enough) and that I can self host for free. And I would never charge money for anything done with those tools.