Slop.

Daily reminder that AI is not and cannot be a property issue, but rather is almost exclusively a labor issue with the remaining problems being the absurd level of waste these shitty corporate chatbots represent and the flood of low-quality slop they enable. The idea that IP is such a sacred and inviolable thing that even just looking at it wrong without prior written authorization from a corporation that claims the right to license it as they please constitutes theft is absurd even within the context of how absurd, overreaching, and all-around bad IP law already is.

Just look at what the result of all the talk about "proper licensing" has yielded: a few big corporations that own content hosting and aggregation sites simply say "we get to license everything we touch" and that's that, they get a payday from another corporation and that corporation gets to legitimize its shady proprietary model because it "properly licensed" the training data.

The closest thing to ethically neutral that generative AI gets are the open source local models, because those at least are tools that anyone can grab and use instead of being secreted away for exclusive corporate use like proprietary models are. Now most of the hobbyist community around those are absolutely vile and wading through them to learn about the tools is a real sort of experience, and they still have the same potential for harm as the secretive proprietary corporate models do, but they at least have the potential to be used as a labor multiplying tool by independent artists.