Regarding that last boost, I'm starting to conceive of LLMs and image generators as a phenomenon of (American) society eating its seed corn. If you're not familiar with the phrase, "seed corn" is the corn you set aside to plant next year, as opposed to the corn you eat this year. If you eat your seed corn this year, you have no seeds to plant next year, and thus create a crisis for all future years, a crisis that could have been avoided with better management.
LLMs and image generators mass ingest human-created texts and images. Since the human creators of the ingested texts and images are not compensated and not even credited, this ingestion puts negative pressure on the sharing of such things. Creative acts functioning as seed for future creative acts becomes depressed. Creative people will have little choice but to lock down, charge for, or hide their works. Otherwise, they'll be ingested by innumerable computer programs and replicated ad infinitum without so much as a credit attached. Seed corn that had been freely given forward will become difficult to get. Eaten.
Eating your seed corn is meant to be a last ditch act you take out of desperation after exhausting all other options. It's not meant to be standard operating procedure. What a bleak society that does this, consuming itself in essence.
To put it differently, these tools and techniques are drawing out the value of works created by creative people without replenishing the originators of that value. That's a horribly dehumanizing way of looking at it, as if people were value spigots, but that's the problem isn't it? This is a dehumanzing arrangement. We don't need to be doing this.
Jeg er litt kritisk til at NRK bruker midjourney i denne artikkelen, og krediterer personen som har styrt generatoren. Her bruker NRK et verktøy som ikke respekterer intellektuell eiendom, og som selger et produkt med intellektuelle eiendeler de ikke eier. Og hvor NRK unnlater å kreditere kunstnerne som faktisk aldri ga samtykke eller rettene til å bruke eiendelene deres.
Here are the #MidJourney developers talking about how they built a list of artists and then decided to "forget" which artists they scraped so they couldn't be sued.