A desperate and feeble attempt at closing Pandora’s Box and keeping the corporate status quo in the hands of the rich.
It’s naive to think AI is going to disrupt the status quo from the rich. It’s just going to make the rich richer. Just look at who owns the AI.
This sort of tech is already disrupting the corpos by shattering copyright as a sham that the rich use to continue to enrich themselves. Hell, it took 104 years for a goddamn black and white cartoon about a mouse driving a steamboat to enter public domain, because Disney and other rich corps kept pushing the copyright laws in their favor.
This is why open-source and freely-available research is an important component. This is an important time to fight for, not against, the tech, and make sure it stays in the public’s hands. If we keep fighting against AI, and the inevitable, then we’re going to end up on the losing side of some draconian law that dictates that only the rich can use the technology, because of some bullshit requirement to pretend to appease copyright holders that requires hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to maintain.
I’d be very surprised if anything functional actually comes out of this. Far more likely they get scammed out of the money by garbage like the current “AI writing detection” methods, with terrible success rates that cause more societal problems than they solve.
Roughly 6 seconds after it’s released someone will change something that breaks it again. It’s a new cat and mouse game.
So… an opportunity to earn $25K over and over? Sounds interesting… /s
I also desire, nay; demand a content ID system, whereby my uniquely distinct farts are fingerprinted so that they cannot be used in media without my consent. A fart fingerprint? A fartprint.
The opposite of that would of course be Disney copyrighting and patenting their own fart sounds, which is an added bonus, as we’ve then effectively made fun of intellectual property through intellectual property systems.
Farts are too hard to produce on demand, but… did you know there are essentially no two identical anal sphincters? And most people keep them secured between their buttocks, instead of stamping them over everywhere they go like they do with finger prints, or even hold them in the open like they do with their irises.
Anal ID, is the secure biometric ID of the future! (uhm, “touch to unlock”)
Alternatively, BellybuttonBiome ID. Seems like no two people have exactly the same set of microorganisms crawling in their bellybuttons either.