David Baldacci vs. ChatGPT: "This Is The Hill I'm Going To Die On" (60 Minutes Australia)

[highplainsdem]

TechRadar article on this today - but it can't begin to do justice to the 33-minute interview:

https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/this-is-the-hill-im-going-to-die-on-david-baldacci-takes-on-openai-in-a-battle-over-stolen-creative-work

Baldacci is a liberal, and his fans include Barack Obama. From a 2018 article:

https://www.hotpress.com/culture/david-baldacci-the-crime-writer-talks-about-his-latest-novel-and-tackling-trumps-america-22166673

Baldacci, who was working as a lawyer in Washington DC when he wrote Absolute Power - later adapted for the screen by Clint Eastwood - is a one-man publishing industry. Among his fans are George Bush Sr and Barack Obama, who, as President, approached the author in a Washington DC bookshop to proclaim his fandom.

“It was wonderful meeting him. We are both writers, both lawyers, both book lovers – and on the same side of the political aisle. It’s a great validation; I respect someone who has accomplished what he has. I have heard him speak – how thoughtful and precise he is choosing his words.”

[SheltieLover]

1. Baldacci is btilliant!

[mopinko]

2. big fan here.

i shd reread some baldacci. been a while. the thing about epstein winning the lottery makes me want to reread ‘the winner’, which is about rigging a lottery.

i have an autographed copy of ‘absolute power’. i picked it up at a thrift shop. i was reading the paperback, but had left it at home. was taking my kid to a doc appt at children’s hospital, where the wait if always long. stopped in their thrift shop on the way in. didnt rly notice that it was autographed. was just grateful to have a book to read.
even tho it’s his 1st book, it’s not very valuable. the man was a star from the very start.

[Escurumbele]

3. Fantastic interview, watch it and send it to family and friends, its worth it.

During breakfast my wife and I got into the AI conversation, I told her that the worst part of it was the fact that companies involved in AI are not trying to make tools to help people work better, they are trying to replace people, and then i find this interview, which I recommend everyone to watch, and the author who is suing ChatGPT explains it better than my single quote of this morning can.

republicans have sold the idea that regulations are bad, but we live in a World where greed rules, and those who have so much money they will never be able to spend it during their lives are still wanting to amass more, instead of using it to make the World a better place, it is like Lex Luthor had all these psycho babies and now they are hard at work destroying societies, and the planet, just so they can add to their billions.

[xocetaceans]

4. Thanks for posting that interview. It does a fantastic job of discussing why 'AI' as it is currently allowed to operate

. . . is also so corrosive to human society. Further, it provides a very reasonable perspective though which progress hopefully can be made in reigning in what is currently unregulated. Of course, these statements are vaguely made in my comment, but I would recommend that anyone who is currently using 'AI' ought to watch that video so as to see that sort of software's true underlying anti-humanist and unethical business context.