Note: This is a duplicate copy. The original is on researchgate here, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35817.76649
Abstract- Create an AI that can give back to artisans, sculptors, photographers, painters, authors, vloggers, bloggers, question-answer sites, etc. Find references towards your generated AI, if the reference needs to be paid to the people whose work was used to make that AI. Not all works need to be paid for; for example, if you use someone’s research, you do not need to pay, but you just need to mention it in a reference. For others, say, a photographer, you need to pay for the work if you earn money from it; if you do not earn money from it, it remains entertainment material, and then you, and nobody else, needs to pay for it. However, if you earn from this entertainment, then it needs to be paid to the contributors if it’s not all original AI creation. This ends many problems, such as payment for professions, as well as it ends fake news and fake videos. It’s a way to earn money for intellectual faculties, skills, writing, the arts, and other skill sets. AI can be a source of income for a lot of artisans, sculptors, photographers, painters, authors, vloggers, bloggers, question-answer sites, etc
Introduction
We are living in an age when everything and everyone is on AI. No one questions it, no one thinks beyond it? No one asks where all this is produced from? Who explained it to AI? Whose painting is that beautiful swarm in the background being taken? From where is this swarm doing salsa form? Who took that photograph of that swarm with a pink mark on its beautiful neck? Is no one asking? But what is the future of it? All the money keeps going to AI companies; people who took these photographs don’t know their rights, as they don’t exist yet. Why? As AI came so suddenly, no one has time. People who made things out of it think it all belongs to them and they are selling the contents as if it’s all their own. Much of it is theirs, AI companies, but much of it belongs to artisans, sculptors, photographers, painters, authors, vloggers, bloggers, question-answer sites, etc.
Ok, let’s take an example of a swarm with a pink mark on its neck. A really good wildlife photographer took this photo; a human user told AI to put a mark on its neck and make it do a salsa. Well, then first comes the photograph, the photographer may have put this photo on the internet, but wait, he can earn from this if it is recognised that AI chose this pic to make the video, AI referred to a salsa YouTube video to create a swarm of salsa, so does AI need to pay the contributor as well? What if there are more than one beautiful white swarm photograph on the internet? Since it’s a dance, we need several poses — front, side, and a more of a swarm. So, we need to pay for various photographs. It depends — if this video was made for entertainment, then we don’t need to ask for money. But if it was made to be posted on YouTube and subscribers liked it so much that it generated income, then it’s a moral duty to pay the wildlife photographers their share of the proceeds for entertainment. If the swarm was not used for entertainment but for a business presentation, say, of some apple orchards, then any deal that leads to profit must compensate the photographer.
It is imminent AI knows what it was told, so some of the money must go to the photographer, the one who clicked that this photograph is of a beautiful swarm. This is just an example of how to break the profit made with AI apps. There are now AI-based photo-editing apps, AI-based painting apps, and AI-based modern art-making apps. But all these need to be paid back to the painters if they edit the look and feel, or the backgrounds, of some original works they used on the way to developing their own style. Their own style can become their copyright, then, but with references to whose work they have used in their contribution. And, for each unit, the profit goes up the supply chain.
AI apps, which are feared to end all artistic work, can actually become a source of income in modern times if used in the right way; they can pay back artists and other professionals. Same with music: voice is not the only thing; the background musicians, the music directors, their work can resonate in the same way as we explained for painters and photographers. The only thing is identifying where your work was used to determine the reference person or reference organization, and to credit them. This is not that simple. Our strategy is outlined in the next section, which explains techniques for crediting the original contributors and registering for new credits.
Unique token/id for internet identities
When everything on the internet has a unique token/id, for images and paintings, and document identifiers for text, answers, and more, then things would be simpler, not just for earning for tradespeople but also to free the internet from fake videos and fake news. This is the future; what about today, when there is no ID? We need to plan and move in a way that creates unique tokens, such as NFTs, for photographs, paintings, and artworks; however, we also need tokens and document identifiers for all written text. This can be put on the shoulders of the media provider.
Then comes the notion of composite ID: an AI-generated video that references other IDs is a composite ID, and appropriate references must be provided. This shall be win-win for all. People shall get a source of income, and AI shall thrive as well.
The methodology
Imagine you are a wildlife photographer with IDs and tokens on the Internet. AI accesses it, completely edits it, and adds more features, creating a new token ID. You get paid as it is bought, won’t you give a share to the original contributor? If so, how much? What are the rules? It’s not simple! Initially, it would start with a good-faith contribution and ultimately lead to an algorithm to determine each shareholder’s share.
Same with research papers. AI is proving new things daily, AI is generating new models daily. The thing is, in research, money does not come; references come, so give references to the contributors and head high in research unless it’s a big project that needs contributions, such as generating sun-like power for all the AI you need.
The uses can include entertainment, research, business, and even analytics, in which we must trace back to find references and attach IDs to any analytics AI produces. We must be precise with the IDs used because simply reading someone’s blog and summarizing it with AI is not the right approach. Paraphrasing and bulleting by AI do not count as uniqueness; an ID system must be established. Additionally, infringement issues must be addressed. We need to ensure that fake videos are also linked to IDs. For example, if a BVV channel photographer takes a photo of a famous person, the copyright belongs to the BVV channel. If someone uploads this image to their AI app and asks how they would look fat, an ID is noted in the AI. Then, they create a dance video by noting another ID from which the dance is copied. The AI generates this video with IDs, and if the user likes it for entertainment, it’s fine, but publishing it requires permission from the copyright holder. With the above 2 IDs, this stops fake news and links payments. How can it end fake news if the BVV channel agrees to allow the use of the photograph for money? Here comes ethics: we must set ethical guidelines for AI app software so that such things can be given a new token/ID. If not, a new token is given, no new DOI is given, and the material cannot be published online. This stops fake news and fake videos.
Conclusion & Future Work
We need to understand that AI mostly does not own anything but the algorithm; all data belongs to human owners. It can access paid content in many cases. AI processes this data and creates new things. We must ask, and we must have the right to ask AI to give back to artisans, sculptors, photographers, painters, authors, vloggers, bloggers, question-and-answer sites, etc., some of the profit AI makes. The AI algorithm is based on associative memory and an attention mechanism. For an AI to create a swarm dance salsa, it needs images of swarm forms from all directions and some salsa videos from YouTube. Hence, we need to ask AI companies to pay back to artisans, sculptors, photographers, painters, authors, vloggers, bloggers, question-and-answer sites, etc., some of the profits they make. The AI companies must give references; they must backtrack if needed to generate the original picture they used and the original dance steps they trained the algorithm on. These references must be produced, and people can be called to claim their dues. In the future, we can implement a token system or an ID/document identifier system that routes payments directly into artisans’ or creators accounts. This can produce good income for so many people. However, what would people do now, people such as artisans, sculptors, photographers, painters, authors, vloggers, bloggers, question-answer sites, etc? Given so much is already on the internet? Well, we still have worlds to explore, we still have telescopes to click, we still have love stories to write, and we still have hope to carry on. Towards a world that acknowledges art, intellectual abilities, and more.
References
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science & Mathematics 