fapGPT and the creepy line

Couple months ago I read an MSN article about fapGPT and people getting sued using it. Some bits and pieces of note: “News organizations, novelists, music publishers and others whose copyrighted works were fed into the chatbots’ large language models as part of their training are demanding a share of the profits.” Apparently some are now making deals with OpeAI for using their stuff. But a whole lot of others are suing them and other AI shill companies. As the article puts it: “The outcome will be a test of the “fair use” principle, which makes it possible — in certain circumstances — to use books, news stories, song lyrics and other copyrighted material without paying their creators.” I will just say this: Guys like Email Players subscriber and one of the best online marketing attorneys in the game Mike Young have been warning about this from day one. People running around fapping themselves blind until their palms are as hairy as bigfoot with AI are incredibly naive if they think this wild west aspect of AI is going to last forever. You can’t even accidentally use an image from Getty without getting drilled for $500 a pop. Just imagine the very AI tech these guys worship being used to find out who is using their content in AI-swiped content? The irony truly writes itself. Google has taken a lot of flak for it’s “Creepy line.” But I suspect the AI version of that will be a million times worse. Especially when it starts collating, sharing, selling your data if it hasn't already. Maybe I just watch too many 80’s eras movies warning about the destructive potential of AI. Being indoctrinated with Terminator, War Games, Alien, and even Maximum Overdrive certainly put an inherent distrust of machines into my brain. And while the yutes look at that and think I’m just some old fart telling them to get off my lawn… I think they and all the other people (boomer copywriters seem especially fascinated with AI) getting morning wood over this tech are in for a very rude awakening. Not a Skynet kind of rude awakening. More of a legal awakening. We shall see. Luckily I’ll be selling my popular book Infotainment Jackpot at a discount in a couple days. If you want to create content that is all “you”, that’s engaging, that can make it so you won’t even want to bother with AI for your writing, creating, content-generation, I think this book will turn the trick for your business. So that’s coming in a couple days. In the meantime? If you can think and write with your own brain then you may enjoy using BerserkerMail: [( Ben Settle This email was sent by Ben Settle as owner of Settle, LLC. Copyright © 2024 Settle, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this email may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Settle, LLC. Click here to [unsubscribe]( Settle, LLC PO Box 1056 Gold Beach Oregon 97444 USA