An investigation into the interests behind the anti-AI backlash finds that the copyright alliance (that many people suing AI companies are part of or have gone to bat for) is a straight up Koch front, an actual shell org for right wingers.

  • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Full disclosure: I’m only responding at this headline and the blurp posted here. I haven’t seen the - oh lord, 3 hours?! - video. But I’m sure it will be very interesting for someone.

    Ehm. So?

    Just because [bad people group X] think that [bad thing Y] is bad, doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

    There are good reasons to be anti AI (creators rights, for a starter , and at the same time, it’s not going to go away, and it will also improve our lives in ways that we cannot fathom right now. It’ll need (better) regulation for sure.

    Having said that, I really don’t think inflammatory posts like these (Y is bad because associated with X) are going make things get better.