Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”
Those statements and a series of other mask-off moments feature heavily in an unredacted court filing that was unsealed Thursday in the behemoth New York Times vs OpenAI copyright lawsuit that has been winding its way through the court system for years. In a filing asking for summary judgment (basically, a filing with the court asking it to rule), lawyers for the New York Times laid out a series of admissions made by Microsoft and OpenAI executives in documents and depositions that until now had remained either sealed or redacted at the request of Microsoft and OpenAI.
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements, taken together, are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they worked, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. It is a reminder that even as AI becomes more powerful and companies try to shift the narrative to the supposed existential risk of “superintelligent” AI, the tools they have already built were created by stealing from human creativity and labor and are by definition existential threats to the human labor market.
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But they charge for their “services” and if it was ultimately a net positive I’d be rallying alongside you, but they just suck and have made everything else they touch also suck.
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It’s worse than Google search was pre 2020 and has subsequently also made Google search itself the worst it’s ever been
The luddites would have actually been against AI and copyright etc. Please look into the actual history of the luddites.
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Copyright is ridiculous and AI shows us how little it matters to the government and corporations if it means getting what they want.
I am not glad AI is destroying all the little guys on the Internet. Fan made and hobbyist sites are being scrapped to death because tons of AI bots are scrapping the same content over and over again astronomically increasing the cost of running a website. This is complete bullshit and should be treated like the attack it is.
I liken it to something crazy like companies sending you texts that your phone company forces you to pay only they sent you like 100,000 texts and now your phone bill is for thousands of dollars. It is an impossible burden they are imposing.