A friend forwarded an article they came across about AI, which I found interesting, for different reasons than them. The article is about how an AI writing service got "caught" plagiarizing content, because the source was quite specific.
The first point I found interesting is that people still seem to think that AI is creating something new and unique. It is not. It is collecting the words of many others, and crushing it into a "line of best fit", essentially making a reduction of common themes that is only good enough to pass the inspection from the average layman, not those with specialized expertise and knowledge.
The article brings up the question of legal rights to content, as it is openly available fan fiction, created by individuals. The problem is that the AI services do not source their regurgitations and the AI developers like OpenAI are obviously not going to share the learning model openly, because that is their market value. So, while the AI tools are being leveraged to plagiarize content and then that content is monetized, the original creator doesn't even get a mention.
Even if the source work in question was never meant to be monetized, it is still someone's work and therefore, using it without permission is plagiarism - purporting it as original and monetizing it is theft.
In the article, the CTO of Sudowrite addresses this by saying;
I'd love for there to be a simple way to do fair compensation for content that was used to train GPT-3, but unfortunately, there is no mechanism that OpenAI provides for that,” he says. “If someone were to offer this, we'd try it out immediately.
Do you see where this is leading?
Firstly, there is no "opt-in" to having your work scraped by these bots, and there is no opt-out. So, they can scrape and steal, making money for some users and for the AI companies, on the back of other people's work. But, as you could perhaps recognize, there are at least some protections that these fan fiction writers should be taking, even though they are not necessarily looking for monetization.
1 Get blockchained
According to the article, just one of the websites (Archive of our Own), hosts over 11,000,000 pieces of work, which makes it a very large source for this kind of strange fiction - and a home for the community. The first thing they should be doing is ensuring that the content of their community is provably owned, by moving it all onto a blockchain, like Hive. This way, any new piece of work is immutably protected, timestamped and secure on a decentralized, censorship resistant blockchain.
2 Tokenize
Secondly, they would also have a chance to build some level of reward and monetization into their community, using a Hive-Engine token, which can be created specifically for their community and traded and used for various purposes on their site.
3 Have a crypto-powered community
And thirdly, they could build a Hive interface to cater for their community to host the content, facilitate discussions and of course, be a distribution point through various mechanisms for their "FAN token" (or whatever they call it). This site would reside on the Hive Blockchain, but can be permissioned off so that the content only appears through that interface itself, rather than cluttering other feeds. Alternatively, they could create a community for posting through, which will only allow members etc to post directly. Both ways mean they can manage and moderate their community, keeping the experience similar for their userbase to now, with supercharged blockchain and crypto capabilities.
Why?
Why do this? Well, Hive is all about ownership and empowering communities to take back their content for their own - at least provably. It gives their userbase peace of mind in terms of having their content immutable and protected and no one can take it down, because it is securely distributed and decentralized. Also, it will introduce people to a community of people who value originality and, a community of people who are looking to build economies that are more equitable for users, especially creators. This can introduce their users to new technologies and new possibilities personally and economically.
Transactions are free
11,000,000 pieces of written work would take some time to blockchain, but at least starting from the newer first, it could be done. And, because Hive transactions are free (with a little help from people who have stake like me), they will be able to get started with minimal costs and minimal disruption. I
Help available?
I am sure if a community like https://archiveofourown.org/ was willing to explore the Hive community and make a shift over at some point, I will be able to wrangle some developer assistance to help their team (which are volunteers like us), to get set up. We already have some basic template models that could get them started and with a little tweaking from the devs, they could have their own Hive community for their specific type of content, up and running quite fast.
User Accounts?
Creating accounts on Hive isn't free, but there are plenty of ways to get many thousands of them for free, again from people like me and others with stake for users. This can be set up in a similar way to what Splinterlands (a blockchained game on Hive) has done in the past in conjunction with Teams like @ocd.
Note: I have created @archiveofourown already and hold the keys for if and when they are ready to claim it.
Future?
Remember from the article how the CTO was willing to compensate sources if there was a mechanism to do so? Well, now there could be a mechanism and a token in order to do it. For example, if an original source were to be paid one dollar, the payee would be able to buy one dollar worth of the designated token and transfer it to the account, freely and within three seconds. This could be automated - after all, they have AIs ;) Alternatively, they could also by a dollars worth of HIVE which is listed an several exchanges and transfer that to the Hive Account also.
To finish with, the more communities that give their userbase ownership and control of their self-generated content and protect them through blockchains, the more value flows back to the actual creators. This value is not just monetary, it is also in the form of the satisfaction of ownership and the peace of mind of content protection. However, with a decentralized Web3 future, there is the chance to empower creators again and set up a renaissance for content, bringing creator and audience into a more direct relationship of appreciation for each other. The content might not be to everyone's taste, but it can still exist on Hive and become a rich, diverse and user-owned community.
Empower Creativity and Reward Originality.
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
I am emailing and sharing this post with them and hopefully, they will get back to me and I can show them around.
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Two things... First of all, I totally agree with you about this "AI". It's not really creating anything. It can't even infer anything. If you ask it to predict anything it beats around the question and gives you nothing. I guess that sort of modeling still belongs to the super computers. Second, it's crazy just how big the fan fiction space is. There are so many communities with so much content. My niece would spend hours reading different stories from one of her favorite communities. It's kind of impressive.
The ones that aren't given for free to the public and developers.
Yes! I had no idea until recently and I think that we should be leveraging this on Hive in some way, inviting communities to check us out. I really hope that they will get back to me on this. I created a test account for them and provided the posting key as well - so let's see :)
That would be really cool. Plus they ckuld get paid!
I am trying to get the AI to write a simple 1942 game for last week. And yesterday I got partial success. I suppose the way AI is kept for open, it is lot more controlled in public access. But the case could be different for enterprise and the govt. I am pretty sure generative AI that we see and the corporates see is totally different. I am pretty sure more AI in corporate plans gets stronger they would be letting go off many people from the job.
Absolutely. And they are trawling the same content and more. The ramifications are enormous, yet most of us are idiots and think only of what we understand of it - which is not much.
There is not an alternative of a content created by human, people are giving to much importance to AI as some thinks it will replace humans in so many areas but I personally think there is not an alternative of human brain, another thing is it's not all about money or rewards we should have some ethics or morality while using any platform or as a responsible member of any community, so its very good if someone mentioned content is created by using an AI App or service otherwise it's not good
Ethics and morality aren't common these days, because there is far less accountability involved and the communities are less connected.
Is community or user not enough to decide in decentralized way?
I don't think so. If incentive outweighs punishment, people will do it.
It's a hard topic to talk about but I do think it is troublesome to see that there is no "opt out" for the training model. There should be some type of compensation for people and I remember seeing a singer get a part of the earnings of the song that was generated. The problem I see is that most people can't figure out what exactly was used by the AI in the model to generate the result.
Yes. So at some point, it has to be traceable and attributable to a source and that source has to be trusted as the source. It requires a web of trust and that only happens in one way.
Good idea to claim the name for them. I hope they move on your call to action. Immutability and decentralization will be huge in the 2nd half of this century!