"Generative AI is here to stay" says the Authors Guild CEO. I reject that. It's losing money at a great rate because it's enormously expensive and has few if any profitable use-cases. (It's also fucking the planet, but apparently no one cares about that.) @authorsguild.bsky.social
Oh, fuck no. Fuuuuuuuuck no. I rebuke this. I rebuke this utterly. I expected better from the Author's Guild.
NEW YORK, October 9, 2024—Today, Created by Humans (CbH), a pioneering platform that enables authors to license their works to AI developers, and the Authors Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest professional organization for writers, announced a new partnership to […]
I should add, though, that it will cause a vast amount of damage before it finally dies out, and contributing to it will only make that worse.
It is the dot-com era all over again, but with less RoI.
One should never underestimate the capability of capitalism to attempt to wring every last iota of “value” from an asset or idea over a very long period. This technology will be with us for a very long time