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This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Boxo McFoxo

@boxobark.ing

I don't think just public domain and licensed materials would have been enough, but I do think the massive web scrape was a lazy shortcut around doing their own data engineering. They convinced themselves that data is like model food and that model training creates emergence from scale.

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