Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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1. Well we know who has been giving him brown paper bags full of money then.

2. Ok and?

   So you just steal it instead and tell them to kick rocks?

3. Can’t say I understand this whole thing. We ban it here and they’ll just do it elsewhere, the end result is the same.

   There is no putting the AI genie back in it’s bottle

4. Good and so what? Ai shouldn’t be a deductive force but rather additive. It needs to be a tool not a replacement.

   I’m all for Ai but not when it destroys the work force at large

5. Asking people to pay for the food they take from Supermarkets could “kill” the Eating Food and Continuing to Live industry.

6. I guess Clegg thinks it’s easier to do what you want and afterward say you’re sorry.

7. Nick Clegg already ruined one generation of talented young kids, why not have a bash at ruining another.

8. Stopping pyramid schemes also harms pyramid scheme business models.

9. Man who’s paycheck is paid by the AI lobby lobbies for AI fuckery, unsurprising

10. Then let it die. If a business can’t afford to pay for the resources it needs to run then it’s clearly not fit for purpose.

11. This is the problem nicely summarised. AI is a technology which has gigantic potential to help the human race, to make things like monitoring the effects of climate change or making medical infrastructure much more efficient.

    However, because neoliberalism reigns supreme and our ruling classes are populated by money scrounging bastards, it will be used mainly to maximise profits. Why the fuck should the ‘AI industry’ be allowed to negatively impact people in order to continue raking it in? If, right now, we can’t use it sustainably or without further endangering the job market (which is already in a sorry state), if it’s clearly not going to be used in the interests of regular people, why should we be expected to accept that?

12. Good. If it can’t sustain itself by being independently creative then what have we got

13. So what the problem with that … why are politicians so quick to come to the defence of private corporations… if someone were pirate content they’re liable to go jail yet they’re now trying argue to allow private ai companies to steal content

14. Improved policing would kill the theft industry, too. What’s his point?

    Seriously, though, speaking as someone who’s already seen my work swiped by AI, screw Clegg. I don’t see why some lazy parasite should reap the benefits of my hard work, while I get nothing.

15. If your industry depends on taking away the right of artists to protect their original works then it shouldn’t be an industry in the first place.

16. I make a business, where I steal things from people’s homes and resell them.

    “If the government says I can’t steal things, this will kill my business!”

17. What’s coming along to make the Nick Clegg industry obsolete?

18. Great! Isn’t he working at Meta now? I hope his job tanks.

19. So he is suggesting we kill one industry, to save another,

20. Then kill it, you can’t just steal with impunity because not being a thief is too inconvenient to profits.

21. Child labour laws force up pricing!

    Safe disposal of nuclear waste drives up energy costs!

    Police ruin stealing industry!

    Why do we put up with this red tape?!

22. Nick Clegg who commanded a multi-million dollar salary at Meta but thinks other people are just being awkward if they expect remuneration for the use of their work.

23. After Nick Clegg tanked the Lib Dem’s credibility for about a decade I don’t think anyone should be taking anything he says seriously, I sure don’t.

24. Good. Fucking kill the cunt stone dead and make the world a better place.

25. This goes for many politicians and ex-politicians, but Nick Clegg is a fantastic example of failing upwards.

    Managed to be completely unremarkable in his political career, except for campaigning on not increasing university tuition, and then rescinded that the moment he got a sniff of power.

    Now he’s raking in the AI bags at Meta. It’s not exactly surprising, but it makes a mockery of people who actually have talent or skill.

26. That’s ok Nick, just bring in UBI for everyone in the creative industry to live off of instead. We can’t all pivot to Cyber.

27. I both hate AI (at least for generative content) and think the copyright arguments in the US (obviously the UK legal context are different) are weak as hell.

    Seems bad though for the UK to kill yet another tech sector when everyone else in China and the US is going full steam ahead.

28. If basic ethics would kill it, it should fucking die.

29. please explain to me why AI needs to be trained on art. we humans are meant to be focusing on doing art whilst the ai keeps the “economy” running, not the other way around ffs.

30. Good. If an “industry” can only exist as a result of theft and defying laws then it deserves to die.

    Meanwhile, has Clegg ever encountered an arse he won’t lick?

31. Remember when we were told not to pirate films/tv shows? So it’s totally fine for the ultra wealthy to do it to get richer but if the working class try it… true hypocrisy at its finest.

32. So he’s basically just admitting to copyright theft and asking for a major lawsuit?

33. So it’s okay to kill the art industry but not the AI one.

34. Humanity, performing another self-lobotomy on our culture, just so corporate interests can be protected.

35. Don’t mind me, just gonna nip round Kensington and Chelsea, steal a bunch of stuff and sell it at my shop.

    Don’t stop me, if you do it’ll kill my shop.

36. Good.
    AI is killing actual artists. Already Coca Cola and other major brands are using AI to produce adverts in entirety. Advertising is where most animators, actors and film makers get their entry level work. Without those, there is no pipeline to directing. In about two decades talent dries up, all film is slop made by executives. 

37. I want AI to be changing my sheets, vacuuming the house and cooking for me. I don’t need AI to produce art.

38. How about AI leaves artists alone and work on more important things

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