AI and Plagiarism

When Netflix or Amazon Prime presents a list of movies for us to watch, we know they paid the creators for that content to be there.

When Apple Music or Spotify presents a list of songs for us to play, we know they paid the creators for that content to be there.

When Kindle or Kobo presents a list of books for us to read, we know the creators specifically chose for their books to be there.

When AI generates videos, songs, pictures or text, we know the creators it was trained on were not paid for it to be there.

This is the one of the biggest problems with AI currently: plagiarism.

If ChatGPT paid videographers to train on Disney movies, that’s different.

If Perplexity paid artists to train on their artwork, that’s different.

If Meta paid authors to train on their books, that’s different.

Many people are so caught up in “not being left behind”, that they’re lapping up whatever is presented to them in lieu of thought.

This could be a real force for good, for humanity.

We just need to remember to not stomp all over humanity in order to get there.