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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TreChriron" data-source="post: 9265511" data-attributes="member: 5046">Disclaimer: I work for a blockchain development company.I feel like blockchain and AI are getting a bad rap. These are just tools. How people are programming them and using them allows for charlatans and crooks to leverage the tech for harm.For example; AI generated art utilizing only an individual's input to generate it, would just be another tool in your toolbox (like illustrator or photoshop). Instead, developers sourced the internet to STEAL artists art to seed their AI. This is wrong. The source is wrong. The AI is just a program.If we keep discussing AI as the problem, the original crime will never be addressed. It should be illegal to leverage other people's work to seed your AI.In the future, I see creators offering licenses and art pieces for customers to buy with the express permission to use for AI seeds (similarly to royalty-free markets). This could create a whole new avenue of revenue for creators. But first, we have to create laws that protect artists from theft.AI used to help you check your grammar or spelling would be a very useful tool. Also one that helps you proofread your product. Again, it's the sourcing of "public" writing that makes it problematic. If we all owned the sourcing of our own AI tools, and writers could provide samples or works expressly for use in AI sourcing, then we would have an equitable market template vs. leveraging AI to create whole new works from other non-credited non-compensated sources. A programmer could easily prevent AI from making fully created new works, and instead limit it to more acceptable uses.Blockchain is just an algorithm that verifies transactions on that platform. The big goals are distributed applications that can't be shutdown from a single source. In some cases it's also about distributed data that improves redundancy and performance. It functions like a cloud platform like AWS / GCS / or Azure. It's just usually distributed across all those cloud platforms! Transactions are transparent, available for anyone to query. Even with the development of special "transaction anonymizers" security firms have figured out a way to follow transactions, recovering funds for hacked users or preventing embargoed countries from leveraging crypto to fund themselves. It's very difficult to hide transactions. Sure blockchain is the source of cryptocurrencies and YES these have been used by crooks to rob people. But it does way more than that, and most of it just a useful way of creating a computing platform.I believe that creators need to agitate for ownership or sources, and restrictions on sourcing. There should be legal restrictions on using AI to create "new" "original" works based on other's works.It's no different than someone mixing together several clips from TV or movies and making a whole new video. That is IP theft. AI and blockchains are tools. People using them with stolen sources should be just as legally liable than anyone using any technology that has come before it. Don't fear the technology. Instead, advocate for laws protecting creator's IP and rights. I believe if we focus on that problem, it won't matter what technologies appear in the future, we will have laid the groundwork to protect creators.</blockquote>

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