Why copyright + AI spells doom for creativity
Artificial intelligence is swiftly becoming a commonly-used bit of technology in the world today. The marvels that neural networks and machine-learning produce are astronomical. With the push of a button, endless content can be created. On the surface, that sounds exciting, but the reality of it is far worse than you can imagine. Why? Because one thing looms over it that will completely destroy the incentive of creators and put creativity six feet under.
That thing is copyrights.
What people don't realize is that multi-billion dollar corporations will use this kind of thing to create an endless slew of content and with the deep pockets they possess, they will have created and copyrighted every single possibility the AI has generated. AI will speed up the progression of creative stagnation from years to seconds, which should have every content creator worried. For centuries, the basis that copyright laws promote and encourage creativity have been engrained into the public's consciousness, but this basis has been steadily declining with the rise of opposition to censorship, one of the key aspects of copyright.
You have to stop and think about this with an open mind. Imagine this has already happened: There is absolutely nothing left to create. Every shape, every melody, every paragraph, and so on has become the property of corporate entities, with society being at the point where you cannot even share one thing you've created without excessive fines and even jail sentences being imposed upon you. There is nothing left to create. The corporations own it all. No artist will be able to paint, no musician will create music, no writer will pen down new books to read. It's all gone.
What's worse is that years of social conditioning and "education" on copyrights have put society in a mental stand-off. Non-profit works are forbidden to be republished, complete strangers become mortal enemies after one infraction of even the smallest size. The legal destruction wrought by this set of laws has divided us.
If copyrights are not reformed or abolished, creativity will die.