Corporation vs individual is a distraction. It’s some people (wrongly, in my view) prioritising production over consumption. If this were Altman personally producing an AI, the same people would rally to him.
The corporate/individual framing needlessly inflames the debate when it’s really one about power and money.
I don't think it's "production over consumption". At least I don't like that framing. For me it's about supporting production. The humans that write news articles every day can't produce that valuable work if they don't get fairly compensated for it. It's not that the AI produces more, it's that the AI destabilizes production. It makes it impossible to produce.
We're not debating whether they do. "Humans that write news articles" are producing. That contrasts with "an individual mak[ing] a single copy of a song and giv[ing] it to a friend." We don't put journalists in jail for plagiarism.
> We don't put journalists in jail for plagiarism.
I'm guessing you're imagining a scenario here were a journalist has copied an entire article verbatim and republished it in their newspaper. That would actually be both copyright infringement AND plagiarism. Newspapers just rarely enforce that right.
These two things aren't on a scale. They are independent infractions.
> they wouldn't, because Altman would still be stealing other people's actual work
OpenAI is "stealing other people's [sic] actual work." The people rallying to it clearly don't care that much about it now. They wouldn't care whether it's a corporation or Sam Altman per se doing it.
Corporation vs individual is a distraction. It’s some people (wrongly, in my view) prioritising production over consumption. If this were Altman personally producing an AI, the same people would rally to him.
The corporate/individual framing needlessly inflames the debate when it’s really one about power and money.