JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum Problem I foresee with ai

A.I. is not a problem. It is a tool. If you buy a book about Songwriting, every principle in that book is derived from someone's else's original thoughts, then compiled through an Authors filter to become a new "thing" which may or may not be helpful. A.I. is simply another tool, like that book about songwriting, from which you will take what your own filters make of the information and resources offered, and use it to create something, or many somethings, using your own filter. All new things build on previous things run through a human filter. A.I., even if it learns from every copyrighted work, is simply compiling info in a convenient way so a human can add their own filters to that info and the result is something new. Verbatim theft where you straight plagiarize another work has always existed. Some get away with it, some don't. But even in cases where someone sings their own version of someone else's song, they have still added themselves (or those they choose to perform it) into the mix and the result is something new. Only in this tiny window of "commercial music industry" has any of this even mattered. Frankly, society would be far better off if a copyright existed for 5 years and then expired forever. This artificial "commerce" angle has set back humanity in horrible ways and worse, has allowed hucksters and scam artists to abuse what was intended to encourage progress and more good works by offering financial advantage. It hasn't worked.

Now, we have people ONLY progressing for financial gain and little else. Our "progress" has been stunted and the abuses have set back endless advancements. It has allowed amazing innovations to be artificially constrained or even withdrawn from existence by greedy corporations and governments and has had negligible positive impact on society. When a new idea is revealed, the timer should force development and availability so that as soon as it hits the market, improvements and new ideas can spin off of it. Societal innovations would lift all boats by taking such advantages out of the hands of people with ill intent. If someone has a great idea, that idea should never be allowed to be shut down and packed away like the Arc in a Raiders of the Lost Arc plot. Sure, allow the creators to cash in briefly, but the give everyone the tools to build on it and continue improvements. For every inventor and every invention, there are countless FREE tools they got to use to arrive at that new "thing" which were only there because someone in the past made it available and it was in the public domain.

Machines are fully capable of creating every conceivable melodic pattern and then "copyrighting" those melodies essentially blocking any further works using an abusive and archaic copyright system. It is time to end it Likewise, all governments should be forced to make public all patents. The US Government has abused the system to put unmitigated power into the hands of elites, keeping inventions and innovations off the market to protect their greedy overseers. Here's an entertaining recap of just a fraction of energy related technologies that the Governments of the world have kept from all of us.