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The biggest issue with generative AI, at least to me, is the fact that it's trained using human-made works where the original authors didn't consent to or even know that their work is being used to train the AI. Are there any initiatives to address this issue? I'm thinking something like an open source AI model and training data store that only has works that are public domain and highly permissive no-attribution licenses, as well as original works submitted by the open source community and explicitly licensed to allow AI training.

I guess the hard part is moderating the database and ensuring all works are licensed properly and people are actually submitting their own works, but does anything like this exist?

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If they pay to power it with sustainable energy then it doesn't. Simple as that. Energy use is really not a problem.

It is if doing so means taking up existing capacity in sustainable energy.

If they were always adding new sustainable capacity specifically for their data centres, that would be one thing, but if all they do is pay for the use of existing capacity, that potentially just pushes the issue down the road a bit.

If/when there's enough capacity to supply all homes and businesses then this issue would disappear, but I don't know how close that is.

Agreed on the capitalism thing, by the way, plus the points about stolen IP.