This is super helpful, thank you for taking the time to write this.

How do you show a computer something? Do you perhaps add pictures to a database that the program then processes? I understand it’s not a folder called SpongeBob but at some point somebody fed it pictures of SpongeBob and now those picture exists in a database.

The reason the legal system is slow is because it’s complicated and everyone turns into philosophy majors when discussing thing like what a database is but are somehow used words like “show” without any explanation.

The reason investors are comfortable pouring billions into AI is because investors either think they are going to make the money back before regulation catches up or they are just coked up maniacs investing anything that sounds shiny.

The only reason the AIs knows what SpongeBob looks like is because they are using tons of copyrighted images in their database as part of their commercial product.

But they are not solutions to the problem. They are asking you to fully abandon the problem and tackle a completely new set of problems.

The most annoying part is that they know this, they just want to signal their own moral superiority.

Dude, go talk to a human if you want human answers.

I think this is apple being particularly shitty because most services don’t do that.