Oh, no! Now how am I going to find 60" of irrelevant content about your grandma just to get a soup recipe?
This past March, when Google began rolling out its AI Mode search capability, it began offering AI-generated recipes. The recipes were not all that intelligent. The AI had taken elements of similar recipes from multiple creators and Frankensteined them into something barely recognizable. In one memorable case, the Google AI failed to distinguish the satirical website the Onion from legitimate recipe sites and advised users to cook with non-toxic glue.
Over the past few years, bloggers who have not secured their sites behind a paywall have seen their carefully developed and tested recipes show up, often without attribution and in a bastardized form, in ChatGPT replies. They have seen dumbed-down versions of their recipes in AI-assembled cookbooks available for digital downloads on Etsy or on AI-built websites that bear a superficial resemblance to an old-school human-written blog. Their photos and videos, meanwhile, are repurposed in Facebook posts and Pinterest pins that link back to this digital slop.
Recipe writers have no legal recourse because recipes generally are not copyrightable. Although copyright protects published or recorded work, they do not cover sets of instructions (although it can apply to the particular wording of those instructions).
Classic Capitalist behavior and problems, now just amplified by the Capitalists new super tool… Monetary/greedy slop amplified by a new tool, jobs ruined in an archaic system that enforces jobs to survive, stolen ‘copyright’ that are only a leftover from this warring ideology, and so on.
AI is currently a tool, and people should hate the users that causes harm with the tool, or better yet, hate the underlying combative system of market capitalism that forces tools to be used like this, forces slop and structural problems, and creates enormous problems for ordinary people. They should not hate the tool - a hammer is only bad in a bad environment.
As long as we keep believing in a combative society paid for, and controlled by the ones with the mightiest tool, it won’t ever get better. Capitalism are sponsored by, and benefit only, the rich, and everyone else are the victims of their behavior, and the automatic consequences it have in all of our social lives.