An interview with India-based senior DevOps engineer Arun Mozhi Maruthamuthu on his stories of using AI professionally and personally, and how he feels about AI using people's data and content.
It's interesting that you don't like having your data taken without your consent but are ok with using tools based on others' stolen words and art. I just wonder how you reconcile these views, as someone whose academic and artistic work was "licensed" without my permission.
Janet, I personally don’t use those tools (and my AI usage policy says so). I assume ‘you’ means my interview guest, who isn’t on Substack.
This dichotomy is common. Many people seem to feel a sense of powerlessness about having their data stolen. Many also feel like their everyday use of the tools doesn’t make any real difference (especially if they use free versions), or like they’re entitled to use them since their data was stolen for the tools without their consent.
It definitely sucks that YOUR work was stolen. I’ve interviewed other creative people whose work has been scraped without consent, credit, or compensation (the “3Cs”). It’s not fair and it needs to be fixed. Perhaps there’s self-selection bias in who I interview, but so far, almost everyone I’ve interviewed (over 40 people since August) supports this. I’m glad your interview with Graham is getting good visibility.
It's interesting that you don't like having your data taken without your consent but are ok with using tools based on others' stolen words and art. I just wonder how you reconcile these views, as someone whose academic and artistic work was "licensed" without my permission.
See this interview with @GrahamLovelace: https://grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/betrayed-author-says-publishing-giant
Janet, I personally don’t use those tools (and my AI usage policy says so). I assume ‘you’ means my interview guest, who isn’t on Substack.
This dichotomy is common. Many people seem to feel a sense of powerlessness about having their data stolen. Many also feel like their everyday use of the tools doesn’t make any real difference (especially if they use free versions), or like they’re entitled to use them since their data was stolen for the tools without their consent.
It definitely sucks that YOUR work was stolen. I’ve interviewed other creative people whose work has been scraped without consent, credit, or compensation (the “3Cs”). It’s not fair and it needs to be fixed. Perhaps there’s self-selection bias in who I interview, but so far, almost everyone I’ve interviewed (over 40 people since August) supports this. I’m glad your interview with Graham is getting good visibility.