This meant that all internet communications were treated equal. No one could throttle competitor communication. No one could censor you. No one could force you to give your data to Google. Apple couldn't stop you from using an alternative texting app to send or recieve messages. Payment processors could not discriminate on what what web shops could use banking.
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If you bring it back now, you would have to state that all *human generated* communication must be treated equal. AI generated communication mustn't be allowed to be treated as equal to the communication of living breathing people.
Dude it ain't just AI, man. It's Net Neutrality.
Ajit Pai killed, KILLED, equal access to the internet for creators, writers, artists, music
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I also think about how part of why these people are targeting creators, writers, actors, musicians, artists... is because the only way out of this future they have envisioned is imagining a better one, and then making it real. Right? And that is a thing that creatives have a role in doing. So, if you can kill that ability, hand it over to the machines you control, maybe you can stop them from this path of resistance. Motherfuckers. -Robert Evans
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listening to my podcasts while working today and happened to come across this from the most recent Behind the Bastards episode on AI, and i felt like it deserved to be spread.
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Dude it ain’t just AI, man. It’s Net Neutrality.
Ajit Pai killed, KILLED, equal access to the internet for creators, writers, artists, musicians, actors, etc. In FAVOR of granting internet access ONLY to large corporations.
That’s it. That’s the motherfucker.
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“AI” as it exists in your fears is ONLY operating in this manner because of THAT motherfucker.
“AI” is just a tool. It generates “responses” to a “query.” Unlike an artist, an AI can generate a million incorrect responses within seconds of a query. But only an artist can choose the correct response to any query about how the future could be better.
There is a percentage chance that the AI can generate the correct response in a set of responses. But only the artist knows which response is right for the world. Only the artist can generate a correct response that is not within the parameters of the AI’s dataset.
The reason “AI” is so OUT OF POCKET at this time in history is BECAUSE Ajit Pai gave over ownership of the internet itself to large corporations.
Those corporations now own copies of all the content any artist has ever shared, through any app, or any website, or given to any gallery that then took photos of that art to share in their press release, if their press release was archived anywhere online.
Those corporations now own copies of your face, copies of every love letter you ever typed, everything you’ve written, said, done, or shared online.
We don’t own those copies. Google and Amazon Web Services and Meta own the physical servers where those bits of creativity are imprisoned. They own ALL of it, because without net neutrality, no one was given an alternative that could compete with their tech.
They own the entirety of the digital landscape because of a lack of net neutrality laws. And they own a good chunk of the ACTUAL landscape in the form of real estate property now, due to a lack of net neutrality laws.
If net neutrality is enacted and enforced properly, “AI” just becomes another tool. A potentially helpful tool that artists can CHOOSE to build together, build better together, build things from it together, and profit from it, together. But right now, all “AI” is doing is scraping away information that was collected during a time period where an egregious lack of net neutrality protections left people with no other options for the communication of ideas.
This means every scrap of data that these AIs are scraping were provided to that dataset either unwittingly or under duress, from people who had no choice of which service to utilize, because their FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT to net neutrality was taken from them.
These companies were always, ALWAYS, going to coerce and steal all this data from the citizens of the world. “AI” just allows them to do it faster and cheaper.
We’re living in a world now where young adults use phone apps without understanding the fundamental bits of technology that make that app work.
If a young person doesn’t even understand that a browser is an application, and an application is a program, and the internet is a physical thing - a large series of physical wires and computer equipment - then how could they begin to understand that they once had a fundamental right to equal access to the usage of that equipment?
They do not know their own rights to equal access to the information on the internet, because they never had those rights in their entire adult life¹. All they have is a tablet, and the apps that they can get from THE PLAY STORE.
The Play Store is controlled by Google [apple has an equivalent for iphone] and Google alone. This means Google decides everything that everyone can or cannot see without a web browser - which is also an APP in the PLAY STORE.
And now, these young adults download an app, create art, upload that art on the app, Google takes that art, AI uses that art as a response to a query, and the young adult creative is angry - Understandably angry. These young creatives never truly agreed to allow Google to profit from their art, because even if they signed an “agreement” by clicking on a EULA [End User Licensing Agreement], that agreement was made under duress - A lack of net neutrality laws over the span of just five years GARUNTEED that the creatives had no real choice to opt out of Google or Apple or Adobe or AWS.
Currently, “opting out” would require an individual to have a massive amount of education about technology. They would have to spend probably two full years learning enough about the technology we have in order to build their own small server for service. They might have to learn code, which takes at least 6 months for a genius. They would have to be educated about IP (internet protocols). And they would STILL have to engage with customers/other users who use Google, Apple, and AWS for payment processing, unless they ALSO wanted to get an education about banking and build their own FDIC compliant payment processor.
THIS IS NOT FAIR TO YOUNG PEOPLE.
That is NOT a choice for an emerging creative. They literally haven’t had the time it takes to learn all this, finish school, AND learn an art.
It is not reasonable to expect a new artist to build a competitor to Google or Meta before they can even safely express themselves.
1 - Net Neutrality was killed in December of 2017.
Ify Nwadiwe was on that episode making some great points. Check him out.
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Check out the full episode here.
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