Source (Bluesky)
AI saved my pets life. You won't convince me it's 100% all bad and there's no "right" way to use it.
The way it is trained isnt intellectual theft imo.
It only becomes intellectual theft if it is used to generate something that then competes with and takes away profits from the original creators.
Thus the intellectual theft only kicks in at generation time, but the onus is still on the AI owners for not preventing it
However if I use AI to generate anything that doesn't "compete" with anyone, then "intellectual theft" doesn't matter.
For example, when I used it to assist with diagnosing a serious issue my pet was having 2 months ago that was stumping even our vet and it got the answer right, which surprised our vet when we asked them to check a very esoteric possibility (which they dubious checked and then they were shocked to find something there.
They asked us how on earth we managed to guess to check that place of all things, how could we have known. As a result we caught the issue very early when it was easy to treat and saved our pets life
It was a gallbladder infection, and her symptoms had like 20 other more likely causes individually.
But when I punched all her symptoms into GPT, everytime, it asserted if was likely the gallbladder. It had found some papers on other animals and mammals and how gallbladder infections cause that specific combo of symptoms rarely, and encouraged us to check it out.
If you think "intellectual theft" still applies here, despite it being used to save an animals life, then you are the asshole. No one "lost" profit or business to this, no one's intellectual property was infringed, and consuming the same amount of power it takes to cook 1 pizza in my oven to save my pets life is a pretty damn good trade, in my opinion.
So, yes. I think I used AI ethically there. Fight me.