Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

  • angrynomad@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    What incentive is there at all to work with UBI? Why would anyone try hard at anything if you’re not rewarded?

    • tomkatt@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There will always be people who seek to challenge themselves.

      Others will want more money than is included with their UBI. What on earth would be wrong with people having a little more, as opposed to so many struggling, needing roommates, and so on? I imagine with an extra 1k-2k in their pocket monthly, a lot more people would buy or build housing, and a lot of service industries would boom with all the additional potentially disposable income.

      Or how about people being able to retire, like actually retire, without stress. We could lower the retirement age, or people could retire independently from government assistance, leading to more available jobs for younger people as more roles transition away due to automation.

      And frankly, I honestly don’t see anything wrong with some portion of the populace just living on UBI and enjoying life if that’s how they want to do things. Nothing wrong with people being happier, less stressed, and potentially mentally and/or physically healthier for it.

    • dartos@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Big surprise, people do things despite not being paid for them!

      Also a UBI should be just enough to live (afford food and shelter) wherever you live. Then you can work for more.

      UBI is about freeing people from having to work multiple dead end jobs just to survive and enables them to have an actual pursuit of happiness. Not everyone will want to work harder, but the option opens to those who do.

      Currently if you’re struggling just to pay for food and shelter, it’s incredibly hard to spend time developing skills needed to make more.

    • trainsaresexy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Also I think it’s funny that we can bail out large companies on repeat, but bailing out people is a show stopper. It’s backwards. The economy is supposed to serve us, not the other way around.