Is AI -Theft On A Global Scale? Not Very Intelligent - AI Training For Modern Machine Learning -Corporate Giants Reek Havoc On Copyright Of Creative Community.
- seantech11twine197
- Apr 12
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 21
AI - The big global reset or the most dangerous tool presented into our lives.
I write this from my perspective as: a journalist, computer tech with diplomas in GDPR and Cybersecurity, photographer, musician, graphic designer.
What is artificial intelligence AI? Google Search Result
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technologies that enable computers to perform a variety of advanced functions, including the ability to see, understand and translate spoken and written language, analyze data, make recommendations, and more.
AI, arrived into our lives, it was fascinating, like a toy, a game, so we all experimented with it, it was great fun,
very intriguing.
But to be honest the experimental phase is well and truly over now and we are beginning to see the trail of destruction it is causing to the creative community in the world, artists, musicians, writers, programmers just to mention a few.
AI in itself is not intelligent even though some would argue there are elements of it that are, however, its creativity is based on the creativity of people.
For the world of the creative community, it is like they have been hit with a hammer on the head and are now walking around dazed from the shock.
No regard or explanation for the use of their copyright work.
The new - AI, author, singer songwriter, image creator, code writer, youTuber.
People who never wrote a book are now producing novels in minutes, never wrote a song just type in few words and not alone will your song words come back but the recorded song will arrive. Images or Videos can be created in the same way, a few appropriate words and that is all it needs and out comes your image, code writers now in the same boat.
I ask myself where is the information actually coming from?
I have recently began to ask myself where is the information actually coming from when I type in a request? Considering that AI did not generate this information, where did it come from? Some person must have allowed the computer machine learning program to get the information from some source.
The real question is did they get the information legally and if so can they prove it and produce the credentials on their website or AI generator?
Are they leaving users of their AI Generators open to legal action for breach of copyright.
The creative people on the planet have been victims of Copyright theft for years in various forms from people around the planet and by big global companies and here we go. Big ruthless companies on the band wagon again.
Just some of my experiences:
For example in 2022, having spent nearly €10,000 recording an album and loading it up to Distrokid for distribution: on Spotify, iMusic and so on. I was getting reports of .0008 of one cent for a stream on the music platforms while the owners make billions world wide. I could see the plays on different platforms worldwide. Let me repeat that for you in case you didn't see it properly:
.0008 of one cent for a stream, how insulting is that?
But in actual fact I didn't even get .0008 of one cent for a stream, Distrokid, paid me no money, it kept me under the minimum payment and would not release any payment to me, so I got no money over a period of twelve months. I spent hours onto Distrokid support but they were very aggressive and would not release any payments. Did they use my songs and music in an AI system to generate tracks?
YouTube is the same, I have one song / video that has over 240,000 plays and no payment whatsoever.
Photoshop shocks it users
For design I have used Adobe Photoshop and other software. I was told a while back that Adobe were using the designs of their users by changing their terms and conditions. There was uproar but was it too late for the designers and photographers?
Adobe outlines the terms: “Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content.
That is a shocking statement for anyone paying to use this software. It is reported that it took the user's designs and used them for machine learning. Adobe States: AI tools empower teams across your organization to work smarter, faster, and more creatively.
But the fact is, Adobe is a company supplying the software to creators to create content, so where did Adobe get enough content that it needed to produce this, smarter, faster, and more creative AI tools. It also states it is: built with accountability, responsibility, and transparency at the core.
Big words but how true are they?
I used to use Lightroom, which is supposed to create a snapshot of content you have on your computer but not load it to the cloud. I got a notification one day stating that my online Adobe cloud folder was full and I needed to upgrade the cloud subscription for more space. However, I did not upload the files to the cloud. I logged into the cloud folder and I can see files and have actually deleted them but they are still there and I cannot remove them.
I contacted Adobe customer support one day and it went around in a circle getting nowhere, so my images are still on the Adobe cloud server. How did 80 gig of my images and designs end up on Adobe cloud server and why am I not able to remove them? Are my images being used for AI and connected to some AI learning machine?
This is real AI and its strain on people in the design community.
So is the creative community in the world now the victim of theft in the AI machine generating information revolution?
What can we do?
Irish authors raise concerns over Meta's alleged AI use
Who invented AI
Birth of AI: 1950-1956
Alan Turing published his work “Computer Machinery and Intelligence” which eventually became The Turing Test, which experts used to measure computer intelligence. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined and came into popular use.
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