The Pop Corporation

AI is objectively awful for people who actually make things. In short, big tech is taking things from people, and it means they’ll lose their income.

While some use of AI may make you laugh or be kinda novel, the fact remains that governments the world over are saying that it’s okay for tech companies to scrape the internet, use people’s music and art, and repurpose it without paying those that made it in the first place. That’s clearly a model that doesn’t have its own citizens interest at heart, right?

This is a matter of unemployment. This is a matter of hurting our very valuable creative industries. It’s a matter of wealthy people having a landscape where they don’t have to pay someone for creative work, even though the program they’re using may have taken and reworked something of theirs in the first place.

With that, Baroness Kidron spoke at the House of Lords about this very matter. She speaks passionately and with the right amount of alarm about the gaslighting that’s going on at the moment, as we’re all told to blithely accept the encroaching tech in our lives, without considering the tangible impact it will have.

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