How AI was Stolen

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Reminds me of "If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research"

My guy is competing with Christopher Nolan for longest film

In an age where hordes of channels are exporting their entire production pipeline to AI in order to deliver low brow, low quality, frankly insulting content to monetize people's desire for long form video essays, you stand out as an exceptional example of how this format should be used. I am in awe of the quality of every single aspect of your work, and I cannot imagine how hard you work to get this out in the time frame that you do. May your curiosity and strive for excellence long continue

Honestly, the best independent documentary channel on youtube

The problem isn’t AI in isolation. The problem is AI + current economic reality. The corporate world lost its mind during the pandemic when the unemployment rate reached 30% because they couldn’t profit from it at that time. AI has made it possible for corporations to profit from unemployment. So if the unemployment rate rises to 60%, corporations simply won’t care. AI protects CEOs from the consequences of their own actions.

The entire stolen labor section giving me “pay no attention to the underpaid exploited labor behind the curtain”

Holy shit. 3 fuckin hours? My boy is puttin in that work.

"The question is not what AI can do, but who it can do it for."

Honestly as far as research publications are concerned, they deserve zero money for anything aside from hosting, and the salaries of their editors, it's not like scientists are paid much or anything for peer review either. Scientists don't get paid by journals to research, they do so with public or private grants, there's no rationale to justify them holding copyright when most scientists would prefer as many people read their paper for free. If a service like scihub is required for even most scientists and students to do research on the subject, and it's an open secret that everyone uses it especially in developing countries where many institutions with limited funding can't afford jacked up pricing of publishers, then the system is broken and needs restructuring. So unlike other copyright holders, a publisher like Elsevier has very little moral claim to any compensation from AI using their paywalled content. I'm also highly critical of the concept of copyright and IP laws in general, they're all instruments of monopoly with ever expanding scope given by judicial diktats, and have to be reined in to a large degree if not radically rethought. This doesn't mean I'm against AI companies profitting off of other's work giving fair compensation, but that shouldn't be an excuse to further strengthen IP laws to the detriment of all, and should instead come from some new legal mechanism.

Unfucking believable achievement my dude. Regardless of the monetary outcome: this video will age like wine. You ought to be deeply proud.

Takes a lot of courage to make an Oppenheimer length video about AI. Masterful.

Amazon naming its ghost work platform ‘Mechanical Turk’ is diabolical 🤣

Bezos not paying out those tiny amounts of cash (that often mean life to many, still – and mean NOTHING to him) is one of the vilest stories we have 'on our books'. [puke emoji]

At the very least, these companies engaged in piracy of millions of items. Many people have been prosecuted and fined to the maximum extent allowable by the law and these companies being allowed to get away with it is one of the clearest examples of a double standard and selective prosecution. These companies should be fined BILLIONS of dollars if the law was applied evenly.

Wow. My comment on the “How the Internet Was Stolen” video was “Watching this and seeing what's happening with Al right now is so eerie. All according to the playbook, rinse and repeat...” Seems you felt the same exact way, haha.

Bellos and Montagu convincingly argues in their book "Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs" that copyright law was not created to protect copyright holders, but rather to explicitly limit their control over works to a short number of years and expand the public domain. It had nothing originally to do with rewards and incentives, and everything to do with stripping monopolies from, e.g., publishers The printing press was a major driver for this, because publishers were claiming perpetual copyright over works they printed.

To me I feel like we should be more weary towards the people who are going to abuse the technology, than technology itself.

This topic could easily take three hours to even be a general introduction to the topic of AI

Only half way, but wow, this is absolute premium content and production. Thank you! Sharing widely.