The thing about Siraj Raval’s case that we’re failing to see

Content ownership in the age of AI

Siraj Raval, an AI education YouTuber, is in the soup for, as people are accusing him, consuming and curating existing Machine Learning tutorials/github repos and other content and then recreating and selling them as his own, without [sufficient] attribution. Is it true? I don’t know.

There’s a video accusing Jay Shetty of doing the same, too, with motivational content. Is this true? I have no idea.

It’d be interesting to eventually [as an experiment] feed an AI model with youtube or other premium types of content and have it generate new content, and then monetize that. There’s no reason to think hobbyists and researchers and students are unable, or far from, pulling off such an experiment.

In the case of Siraj, it might seem fairly easy to conclude his wrongdoing, though I’m personally not convinced he’s personally involved (maybe he is, maybe he isn’t, I won’t judge), but going forward, the idea of content ownership is gonna be heavily challenged and we’re way too unprepared to live with that.

Automated stealing and regenerating content might be just as bad as generating fake news, and we seem equally unprepared for dealing with both of these side-effects of the brilliant technologies that we develop; unprepared technically and philosophically.