I don't have any vested interest. I'm just a guy. Don't work on AI, don't use AI much in my day job.
I just legitimately think the outrage is unreasonable. It is completely infeasible for AI companies to provide any meaningful amount of compensation to all the data sources they use.
Alternatively they could just not use any of the data, in which case we wouldn't have as good LLMs and other than that the world would be exactly the same. These data owners don't notice any difference. Using their data doesn't harm them in any way.
You seem to be arguing that enabling people to mimic Ghibli's art style somehow harms them, I don't see how it does at all. People have been able to mimic it already, what's the difference? More people can? Does that make a difference to ghibli? I mean can you point to some concrete negative effects that his phenomenon has had on studio ghibli?
I don't think you can. And I think that proves my point. Anything can be mimicked. People can play covers of songs, paint their own versions of famous paintings, copy Louis Vuitton bag designs, whatever they want. The effort it takes is irrelevant.
You don't even have to train AI on studio Ghibli's art to mimic it. You could just train it on other stuff and then the user could feed it studio ghibli art and tell it to mimic it. The specific training data itself is irrelevant, it's the volume of data that trains the models. Even if they specifically avoided training on studio Ghibli's art there would likely be basically no difference. It wouldn't be worth paying them for it.
I just legitimately think the outrage is unreasonable. It is completely infeasible for AI companies to provide any meaningful amount of compensation to all the data sources they use.
Alternatively they could just not use any of the data, in which case we wouldn't have as good LLMs and other than that the world would be exactly the same. These data owners don't notice any difference. Using their data doesn't harm them in any way.
You seem to be arguing that enabling people to mimic Ghibli's art style somehow harms them, I don't see how it does at all. People have been able to mimic it already, what's the difference? More people can? Does that make a difference to ghibli? I mean can you point to some concrete negative effects that his phenomenon has had on studio ghibli?
I don't think you can. And I think that proves my point. Anything can be mimicked. People can play covers of songs, paint their own versions of famous paintings, copy Louis Vuitton bag designs, whatever they want. The effort it takes is irrelevant.
You don't even have to train AI on studio Ghibli's art to mimic it. You could just train it on other stuff and then the user could feed it studio ghibli art and tell it to mimic it. The specific training data itself is irrelevant, it's the volume of data that trains the models. Even if they specifically avoided training on studio Ghibli's art there would likely be basically no difference. It wouldn't be worth paying them for it.