[HN Gopher] Artificial Intelligence Can't Work Without Our Data....
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       Artificial Intelligence Can't Work Without Our Data. We Should Be
       Paid for It
        
       Author : robg
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2023-06-29 21:53 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | viggity wrote:
       | The Vatican should be able to charge a royalty on every marble
       | sculpture currently produced, because undoubtedly the sculptor
       | has studied The David. Yeah. Totally that.
        
         | gumballindie wrote:
         | The scary thing about ai is people willing to compare it to
         | humans. They sound a bit like conspiracy theorists. While it is
         | true that in theory ai can reach human levels of intelligence,
         | it still is software, and software should be treated as such.
         | Pay for the content used or dont use it all unless explicitly
         | permitted by the authors.
        
       | JohnFen wrote:
       | I would much prefer some effective way to opt out of having my
       | data used for training.
        
       | joegibbs wrote:
       | "small, starting at $0.001 per word generated by AI" - this isn't
       | small. GPT3.5 is $0.0015 for _1000_ tokens. You 're basically
       | making gen AI 750x more expensive. If you write a 1000 word
       | explanation of something that'll be a dollar. Imagine trying to
       | use ChatGPT at this pricing - basically every conversation will
       | be $5-10, so anyone who wants to use it will be coughing up
       | hundreds per month.
        
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       | itishappy wrote:
       | > Our proposal is simple, and harkens back to the Alaskan plan.
       | When Big Tech companies produce output from generative AI that
       | was trained on public data, they would pay a tiny licensing fee,
       | by the word or pixel or relevant unit of data. Those fees would
       | go into the AI Dividend fund. Every few months, the Commerce
       | Department would send out the entirety of the fund, split
       | equally, to every resident nationwide. That's it.
       | 
       | Let's call it something catchy like "Universal Basic Income." And
       | collecting money when companies do stuff? Brilliant. I wonder if
       | it could even be applied more generally... perhaps by taking a
       | percentage of every companies profits? I should write this
       | down...
       | 
       | In all seriousness, I do love UBI, but this seems like a weird
       | way to go about it. Also, AI contributions are worldwide, how's
       | that gonna work?
        
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