I think a lot of people are exhausted because it feels like every beautiful or useful thing eventually gets monetised, privatised, extracted, or bulldozed.
Google’s defence against musicians’ lawsuit is doubly sickening.
First, they say the musicians have no evidence Google trained on their videos. But that is because Google refuses to reveal its training data! (Sir Demis blocked me for asking what they train on.)
Second, they say YouTube’s Ts & Cs give them the right to train on people’s videos anyway. But it is career suicide for a musician not to use YouTube. This is a huge abuse of Google’s market power.
Google is trying to punish musicians for its own lack of transparency, and arguing that it has rights no musician intended to give it.
When the only option to decline is "don't use our service" and/or "delete everything you've uploaded before AI even existed", then there's no consent and it shouldn't be legal. Especially when thousands of artists who uploaded have died before AI existed.
The scary part about Anthorpic's Fable nerf is not that it refuses to answer biology or cryptography. It's that it foreshadows what's coming. A world where a couple companies decide what you can and cannot do. They're building a new ruling class and you're not in it...