Now Musicians’ Union Threatens Possible Strike Over AI, Streaming Media
“After a year in which both actors and writers hit the picket lines, another Hollywood strike may be on the horizon,” reports CNN:

The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), a union representing musicians across the entertainment industry, will begin negotiations Monday on a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture … ⌘ Read more

I am so literally fucking sick of this AI / OpenAI / CoPilot shit™. I took a very strong moral and ethical stance many years ago, Why I no longer trust Github for the exact same reasons Actors and Musicians are now suring AI companies. Why is this shit™ so fucking hard? Pay the content authors! Training on the hard work and contents of others is stealing.

@prologic@twtxt.net I totally agree. Our work in aggregate is a competive advantage. We have been subject to medieval punishment for copying a fkng song. But OpenAi should be allowed to suck up all our work and derive value from it… for free??

@darren@twtxt.net I could not agree more! We lowly humans of society, have our asses thrown in jail for illegally copying/stealing/sharing copyrighted material of all kinds, but OpenAI l, Microsoft, Google and other companies are allowed to pillage/steal as much copyrighted works as they want to train their models on and reproduce new derivative works on and even sell and profit from it, without even so much as a fucking consequence 🤦‍♂️