Cory Doctorow on Nostr: That's a monstrous proposition - and that's before we get to the part where their ...
That's a monstrous proposition - and that's before we get to the part where their products *aren't anywhere near good enough* to do your job, but their salesmen are *absolutely* good enough to convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI model that totally *fails* to do your job.
But while the corporations that pay artists may hate the idea of AI companies scraping their archives, they *hate paying the creative workers that fill those archives every bit as much*.
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