@hypervisible.bsky.social:
Some of the worst people on the planet are in charge of this tech, and they are telling you it should be your friend, coach, therapist, and tutor.
@alexsavard.bsky.social:
Asking for permission to rob banks would kill the thieving industry.
@mark-mh.bsky.social:
So far, there is no industry. Industries MAKE money.
So far, this is a ONE TRILLION dollar con game to cheat investors.
@jodydiperna.bsky.social:
I will dance on the virtual grave of AI. Although my dance won’t be virtual. It will be real. And enthusiastic.
Mine will be too!
@dwyara.bsky.social:
At its core, AI is a museum and library of stolen works
@moxfyre.bsky.social:
So the AI industry wants everyone to live forever under the creativity-suppressing regime of the Eternally Copyrighted Mickey Mouse… except for them?
@rosemarytwist.bsky.social:
If you can’t do it ethically, then don’t do it at all
@mastinmusings.bsky.social:
Slave plantations used the same argument.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry, Meta’s former head of global affairs said asking for permission from rights owners to train models would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.” by Mia Sato, May 26, 2025, The Verge
As policy makers in the UK weigh how to regulate the AI industry, Nick Clegg, former UK deputy prime minister and former Meta executive, claimed a push for artist consent would “basically kill” the AI industry.Then the fucking industry needs to be killed. Existing on and profiting richly off the hard works and creations of others without their consent, or royalty payments, is just NO!
Speaking at an event promoting his new book, Clegg said the creative community should have the right to opt out of having their work used to train AI models. But he claimed it wasn’t feasible to ask for consent before ingesting their work first.Of FFS, of course it’s feasible to ask for consent. It’s required by law.
“I think the creative community wants to go a step further,” Clegg said according to The Times. “Quite a lot of voices say, ‘You can only train on my content, [if you] first ask’. And I have to say that strikes me as somewhat implausible because these systems train on vast amounts of data.”So, get going, get asking permission. You and yours have much work to do to catch up.
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work,” Easy fuckin’ peasy buddy. You pick up the phone book, or search for artists on line, get their phone numbers, and or emails, and call and write them! And, ask for consent, please. It’s like men wanting sex without getting consent. Just NO! Clegg said. “And by the way if you did it in Britain and no one else did it, you would basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”If that’s how fucking pathetic and criminal the AI industry is, it needs to die, like yesterday. What a fucker you are Mr. No Consent Clegg.
The comments follow a back-and-forth in Parliament over new legislation that aims to give creative industries more insight into how their work is used by AI companies. An amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill would require technology companies to disclose what copyrighted works were used to train AI models. Paul McCartney, Dua Lipa, Elton John, and Andrew Lloyd Webber are among the hundreds of musicians, writers, designers, and journalists who signed an open letter in support of the amendment earlier in May.
The amendment — introduced by Beeban Kidron, who is also a film producer and director — has bounced around gaining support. But on Thursday members of parliament rejected the proposal, with technology secretary Peter Kyle saying the “Britain’s economy needs both [AI and creative] sectors to succeed and to prosper.”More bullshit, like politicians, lawyers and judges protecting raping lawyers to keep the profits rolling in. No, AI is not needed for anyone to prosper. AI is stolen intelligence and wastes far too much drinking water and energy for it to be used in our current climate chaos crisis with many jurisdictions allowing AI and data centres suffering horrific multi year long droughts. Kidron and others have said a transparency requirement would allow copyright law to be enforced, and that AI companies would be less likely to “steal” work in the first place if they are required to disclose what content they used to train models.
In an op-ed in the Guardian Kidron promised that “the fight isn’t over yet,” as the Data (Use and Access) Bill returns to the House of Lords in early June.Good. Please do not let up.
Refer also to:
2025: AI is coming for the world’s energy and water.
2024: AI and the death of dignity. Another reason why I hate AI.
2023: Why I hate AI
