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The activist who’s taking on artificial intelligence in the courts: ‘This is the fight of our lives’ (english.elpais.com)

submitted 10 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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The American Matthew Butterick has started a legal crusade against generative artificial intelligence (AI). In 2022, he filed the first lawsuit in the history of this field against Microsoft, one of the companies that develop these types of tools (GitHub Copilot). Today, he’s coordinating four class action lawsuits that bring together complaints filed by programmers, artists and writers.

If successful, he could force the companies responsible for applications such as ChatGPT or Midjourney to compensate thousands of creators. They may even have to retire their algorithms and retrain them with databases that don’t infringe on intellectual property rights.

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[–] frog@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep! And it's not like a lot of creative professionals are paid all that well right now. The tech and finance industries do not value creatives.

[–] Juno@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Starving artist"

[–] frog@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Obviously I can't speak for all countries, but in mine, an artist and a programmer with the same years of experience working for the same company will not be getting the same salary, despite the fact that neither could do the other's job. One of those salaries will be slightly above minimum wage (which is currently lower than the wage needed to cover the cost of living), and the other will be around double the national average wage. So there are in fact artists using food banks right now, and it's not because the creatives aren't working as hard as the tech professionals. One is simply valued higher than the other.

[–] Juno@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Meritocracy is a myth used to control people.