It’s all worth seeing, hearing and experiencing…if only the tech and/or law could make it happen.

I had always hoped that the internet would drive solutions to problems like these. Still do.

Same with movies and tv: unless a DVD was released and you bought it (and you have something that plays DVDs), that show or movie you love will come and go from streaming services, perhaps not to be available again.

It’s the same with other culture too: rights issues prevent the true jukebox in the sky that I was promised would be the future! Streaming services are woefully incomplete and don’t scratch the service of all of the music that’s been recorded, or even being released now.

That’s it, no original thought or lived experience or burning drive to create. Is the result of that “learning” transformative, per fair use? I don’t know, but the way tech company folks talk about AI always irks me, like it’s a person they’re training, and that’s just not the case.

In reality, “training AI” means (yes, simplistically!) the machine catalogs the text of the books, scrambles it, and spits out a mish-mash of those books per your instructions. An LLM can’t create something original because the ONLY thing it “learns” from is what it’s been trained on. /2