The AI Unbundling
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The AI Unbundling
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#2I don't understand the point the post is trying to make. Maybe it's generated? HN sure likes to upvote stuff with AI in the title.
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#3Isn't there going to be the great bundling with AI? Contrary to the trend in the past of unbunding?
He can't see the forrest for the trees:
"I have plenty of ideas, and thanks to the Internet [...]"
Most of those ideas will look shallow in the future and be generated by an AI, executed by an AI etc. aka the great bundling.
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#5Isn’t it likely that patent law is going to lock ai down? One company will finally crack something general-enough in a way that gets it way ahead, will patent it, and will use that monopoly to gain control of the whole space, and the monopoly will never go away because all further improvements will also get patented by the ai legal team?
The brief openness of ai right now is a glitch in the system that will get ironed out soon. Only megacorps, and countries that ignore patent law, will be able to afford to license the patents to do any significant ai work at all
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#6I am not sure I see the unbundling here. AI generated art may be a threat to generic stock photography and small jobs for custom blog art, but artists higher up on the food chain now have a new tool for them to use. They can quickly generate a bunch of concepts to tryout ideas, and polish those into a higher quality piece of art than if left to their own devices.
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#7Isn’t it likely that patent law is going to lock ai down? One company will finally crack something general-enough in a way that gets it way ahead, will patent it, and will use that monopoly to gain control of the whole space, and the monopoly will never go away because all further improvements will also get patented by the ai legal team? The brief openness of ai right now is a glitch in the system that will get irone…
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#8Isn’t it likely that patent law is going to lock ai down? One company will finally crack something general-enough in a way that gets it way ahead, will patent it, and will use that monopoly to gain control of the whole space, and the monopoly will never go away because all further improvements will also get patented by the ai legal team? The brief openness of ai right now is a glitch in the system that will get irone…
This wasn't true of software, so I don't know that we should expect it to be true of AI.
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#9Isn’t it likely that patent law is going to lock ai down? One company will finally crack something general-enough in a way that gets it way ahead, will patent it, and will use that monopoly to gain control of the whole space, and the monopoly will never go away because all further improvements will also get patented by the ai legal team? The brief openness of ai right now is a glitch in the system that will get irone…
anti-trust law would prevent the most egregious forms of this
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#10I am not sure I see the unbundling here. AI generated art may be a threat to generic stock photography and small jobs for custom blog art, but artists higher up on the food chain now have a new tool for them to use. They can quickly generate a bunch of concepts to tryout ideas, and polish those into a higher quality piece of art than if left to their own devices.
I agree. I see AI-generated art as a force multiplier for skilled individuals, same as better editors, tools, languages, and frameworks have been for developers.