rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑
April 1st, 2024, 01:03
Strong disagree, this has made the ability to create available to anyone rather than to billion dollar companies that own sweatshops in some obscure asian country.
i remember when they said that about low-budget movies with cgi.
individuals have no way to monetize except through the platforms of the billion dollar companies. You can have ai scam out a book for you but you can only sell it on amazon, where it competes with a sea of other ai books with ai covers. Some thirdies claim they're making money doing this, maybe they are, but the curation issues with these mass-produced scams are hugely bad for the customers. AI movies will be the same. Most customers will decide thay sticking to established brands is a better bet than buying from Jeet Production Studios. Non-jeets (I mean the ones who put "effort" into their generations and try to create a real complete production instead of shitting out deliberate scams) won't be able to distinguish themselves. Jeet Productions and Jim Productions won't be able to get their AI movies on streaming platforms. They can flood self-publish video sites like youtube but it will be a fight for scraps and a shrinking ad monetization pool.
I think in 2 or 3 years there will be mandatory watermarking on all video and image ai generators (except military and glowie), both eye-visible and in the metadata, difficult to remove. Not like a big red "AI" but a small symbol that embeds itself all over the place in the generation. Something similar for audio. By then low-quality pajeet ai will be such a nuisance that most won't want to see it
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(most people don't already. Content that is obviously ai generated gets about 25-30% of the views of stuff that's human made, or at least not as obviously ai)
. Maybe they update video card drivers to not run the old, unwatermarked open source models anymore, maybe not.
Maybe billionaire corpos get a carve-out where they use some expensive, licensed, registered proprietary generator where they can create without consumer-visible watermarking, but they must log every generation with the state. Or they start with a watermarked generation for concept and then do a careful "repaint" with human (non-ai computer assisted) hands, so to speak. Still sweatshop work.
The reason for the state to do this has nothing to do with protecting jobs or stopping thirdie scammers, but only to "prevent the spread of misinformation". You will still be glowopped.