MyAIPolicies

I love ArtificialIntelligence

But given MyFearsAboutAI I support the following political policies

Tax Generative AI

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7343565790475902976/

Basically we have to stop using AI for the stupid "zero-sum" games.

Eg. the AI to generate slop designed to game search-engine algorithms. The AI designed to create impressive looking presentations that are then undermined by the AI designed to summarise presentations into a simple bullet list. (Let's just present the bullet list). Same for the AI which makes your notes into a podcast and the AI that summarised the podcast back into notes.

These are all insane wastes of energy.

How could we legislate for this? I say put a tax on AI use. There are only about 5 companies providing the models behind all the other wrapper companies, so it's not hard to identify and target them.

Say, it's $2 per million tokens. Add a 50% tax on that. So it costs $3 per million. This won't stop all usage. Particularly the worthwhile usage. But it might make the egregious over-consumers of AI think twice about their business model.

End Copyright

Training AI is fair use. But all AI models and their outputs should be public domain

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7343602787223564290/

For me, code being generated by AI not being copyrightable is a feature, not a bug.

In fact I think it should be fair use to train AIs on everything. With the quid pro quo that nothing AI generates can be copyrighted. And the AI model itself must also be in the public domain.

Copyright was a legal fiction invented to encourage the production of more intellectual stuff when intellectual stuff was scarce and expensive.

Now we face the opposite situation, where generative AI threatens a tsunami of overproduction of intellectual stuff. Scarcity is no longer anyone's worry.

In which case, instead of wringing our hands about how problematic this is for the business model, we need to bite the bullet and accept that the business model of "intellectual property" and artificial scarcity is outdated and should just be scrapped.