AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

[Maxperson]

How is a ban on something I don't use in my business going to ruin me?
AI is pretty interesting, and LLMs have made a big splash lately, but let's be clear. As it stands now, AI is not an acceptable substitute for human labor, aside from any legal or moral issues that might arise. From a business standpoint, I think the cultural landscape for it is a landmine field, I think it is very risky to invest in a product people are turning against, and which doesn't have hardly any decided case law (in the US, they determined a piece of software cannot be the nominal author of a work, whoop de doo). Generative AI, in its current form, has three potential actual uses:

It may not ruin you, but it is already having a severe negative affect on a lot of people. Today I heard a segment on the radio about how farmers and grocery stores are using AI to become much more efficient, which is curbing the amount of excess food they have. Many charities and food banks which relied on that excess being given to them to hand out to the hungry are now struggling. Many more poor and homeless Americans are going hungry when they otherwise wouldn't.

 

[Justice and Rule]

It may not ruin you, but it is already having a severe negative affect on a lot of people. Today I heard a segment on the radio about how farmers and grocery stores are using AI to become much more efficient, which is curbing the amount of excess food they have. Many charities and food banks which relied on that excess being given to them to hand out to the hungry are now struggling. Many more poor and homeless Americans are going hungry when they otherwise wouldn't.

Uh, what network was this on? I'd love to actually see the data on this.

 

[Maxperson]

Uh, what network was this on? I'd love to actually see the data on this.

It was on the radio. I'd have to do the research to find an article.

 

[Justice and Rule]

It was on the radio. I'd have to do the research to find an article.

I mean, I myself am trying to find it, but like... what network were they affiliated with? NPR? CBS? ABC? Did you get an author/host name out of it? Any name? Just really interested in the piece, because I've seen a lot on the opposite: AI largely being used to do stuff like aggressively markup pricing.