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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

Cabe - GreggB

@cabe.shadowtek.uk

And even if it was "ethically sourced", it would *still* be trying to flash fry the globe. It's capacity in gigawatts of compute. Energy we *should* be using to power hospitals, schools, etc and because of the demand on grids that can't support it, so being generated in the worst possible ways.

5/10/26, 4:55 pm3 reposts94 likes

open borders now

@radtranslib.bsky.social

among other things, it would use a *lot* less compute this way

the fool (cachinnatory)

@agnoster.net

If you ethically sourced the training data and built new renewable solar capacity to cover all the electricity usage and only built datacenters where there was abundant water… Some people would still hate AI because their neurons just got wired for hate

the TERRIBLE EGG

@wryterra.com

If reality was completely different then this thing I want to believe would probably be true.

the fool (cachinnatory)

@agnoster.net

“Better things aren’t possible, you fool” Get that a lot!

isoma

@isoma.bsky.social

If the companies running AI had to pay for the training data, they wouldn't have investors and lenders willing to fund all that unprofitable power use.

Oli

@olalonde.bsky.social

They would. They actually spend quite a bit on training data.

Saursi

@saursi.bsky.social

Damn, you are right, sounds like their business model isn't legally or financially sound.