"It's just so perverse - I truly don't understand why anyone would decide to burn tons and tons of #carbon for the sole purpose of stealing a #job that #people love to do."

... and which role play #CreativeCommons (e.g. "#Commercial Use Allowed") for scraping BILLIONS of #images from the web!

Molly Crabapple offers concerning perspectives why #AIimageCreation is not just bad for any #artist and their #artwork, but for the #society and the #world!

She's fighting against those mega-companies exploiting artists!

#Podcast

"Tech won't save us -
Why #AI is a Threat to #Artists"
w/ #MollyCrabapple

https://techwontsave.us/

> .. #MollyCrabapple is.. challenging this theft. “#AI art generators are trained on enormous datasets... millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. Perpetrated by respectable-seeming corporate entities backed by #SiliconValley venture capital. It’s daylight robbery,” a new open letter she co-drafted states.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein?
#NaomiKlein #AiSalami

#10yrsago Bloomberg publishes CEO-to-employee-pay chart https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-executive-pay-peer-groups/

#10yrsago #MollyCrabapple’s SHELL GAME, free and CC https://web.archive.org/web/20130505150702/https://mollycrabapple.com/2013/05/01/shell-game-hi-res/

#5yrsago @CambridgeAnalytica is out of business, but its heavy hitters have reopened under a new name https://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-executives-and-mercer-family-launch-emerdata-2018-3

#5yrsago #Comcast: if you don’t subscribe to cable TV, we won’t sell you high-speed internet https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/comcast-wont-give-new-speed-boost-to-internet-users-who-dont-buy-tv-service/

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