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Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles
Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles
good points in this article, about the "extraordinarily brazen criminal" acts surrounding the whole AI /LLM industry
oday’s large-scale AI systems are founded on what appears to be an extraordinarily brazen criminal enterprise: the wholesale, unauthorised appropriation of every available book, work of art and piece of performance that can be rendered digital.
#ai#ai.theft#tech.bros#tech.politics#opinion
·theguardian.com·
Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles
tldraw
tldraw
totally brilliant whiteboard experience... not sure if open source, but it seems mostly free
#web.app#image.edit#draw
·tldraw.com·
tldraw
AutoDraw
AutoDraw
brilliant site for quick drawing (ie the machine guesses what you're trying to draw) - not really an image editor at all
#web.app#ai#draw#image.edit
·autodraw.com·
AutoDraw
Drawpile
Drawpile

a web app for collaborative drawing, i believe. Possibly open source. Looks amazing (but my pen / tablet is playing up so not working well)

..also won't let you play without a pen / tablet, mouse only gets rejected

#web.app#draw#collaboration#image.edit
·web.drawpile.net·
Drawpile
I Miss Actually Owning Stuff
I Miss Actually Owning Stuff
important conversations about whether people really own the technology they buy. Tech companies are increasingly controlling as they reduce hardware & software licences to "conditional renting".
#ownership#totalitarianism#big.tech
·whatwelost.substack.com·
I Miss Actually Owning Stuff