About whether AI models like Sora training on art should be treated like human learners.
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About whether AI models like Sora training on art should be treated like human learners.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
This will be a major point of contention if machine learning continues to go the way it’s going.
In the future if the Turing test is fully passed I think morality will boil down to preferring humans if and only if it’s a situation of competing scarcities.
In the case of “showing pictures to computer people”, showing pictures to a computer doesn’t prevent you from showing it to a human so this framework imply no moral justification for a human preference.