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Michael Bolton's avatar

"Democratize" is simply Silicon Valley's misspelling of "displace".

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Krista Bradford's avatar

As the wife a saxophonist, I have learned that, "democratizing creativity" means redistributing more of what's left of the wealth to the wealthy. Long before AI chatbots arrived, residuals (pay for musicians) were gutted in the US in deals struck with music platforms (I'm talking about you, Spotify), while outside the US, their artistic contributions remain compensated. Today, AI enables reconstituted copy-cat theft at scale. (Just name your favorite artists and ask DALL-e to create an image.) I doubt laws can contain it because this easily reaches far beyond US borders making it difficult to stop.

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