How AI Theft is Killing the Internet

Get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/tomnicholas Find out more about my feature-length documentary Boomers: https://go.nebula.tv/boomers?ref=tomnicholas AI Theft. Many have assumed it's been taking place for some time. But now we have proof. What effect will it have on our ability to learn about and debate the world around us? Written, directed and presented by Tom Nicholas. Edited by Georgia Burrows. *Chapters* 00:00 AI Theft is Taking Over 01:36 An AI Company Stole My Work 08:50 How the Internet Changed the News 17:27 The AI News Revolution 26:11 The Death of Independent Media? 28:27 Boomers Update! Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas-ai-theft-is-killing-free-speech?ref=tomnicholas *Bibliography* Find a bibliography for this video here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-how-ai-is-113155437 *Blurb* I recently discovered that 18 of my videos had been stolen to train the AI models of a handful of big tech companies including Anthropic, Apple and Nvidia. Obviously, this was mildly annoying A lot has been said about the moral and legal repercussions of such Ai data scraping. But, I wanted to explore the potential impact it might have on our political and cultural discourse and debate. How will a world in which any form of journalistic, political, or critical expression can be sucked up by an AI model and repurposed effect the basic economics of our media sphere? Support my work on Patreon at https://patreon.com/tomnicholas Twitch: http://twitch.tv/tom_nicholas Twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_nicholas Instagram: http://instagram.com/tomnicholaswtf Patreon: http://patreon.com/tomnicholas Website: http://www.tomnicholas.com Select footage courtesy of Getty Music from Epidemic Sound