Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE)
38 episodes
2 months ago
In the CAVE: An ethics podcast, is back with Season 7 of the show! Join your hosts, Professor Paul Formosa and Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers, from the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre, as they explore a range of philosophical topics focused on the question of how we can live well as moral agents in an ethically complex world.
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In the CAVE: An ethics podcast, is back with Season 7 of the show! Join your hosts, Professor Paul Formosa and Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers, from the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre, as they explore a range of philosophical topics focused on the question of how we can live well as moral agents in an ethically complex world.
Special Episode: AI, Copyright, and Model Collapse, with Professor Alain Strowel
In the CAVE: An Ethics Podcast
30 minutes
2 months ago
Special Episode: AI, Copyright, and Model Collapse, with Professor Alain Strowel
We are told that Generative AI is the future. But what if
that future is built on, as one commentator puts it, the "largest theft of
intellectual labor in history"? AI models are trained by ingesting vast
amounts of creative works—including art, music, computer code, and
writing—often without permission from, or payment to, the creators of that
content. These same models are now generating content that competes directly with the human creators it trained on, potentially flooding the internet with what some have termed "AI slop". This raises a critical question: how do we ensure that human creativity is valued and remunerated in the age of AI? And what happens to AI if it starves itself of the very human creativity it needs to improve?
Join host Professor Paul Formosa and guest Professor Alain
Strowel as they discuss these issues, based on Alain’s new paper: Alain
Strowel, “The risks of AI slop and AI model collapse, and why it is essential
to adequately feed the next Generative AI models and to remunerate creators through a dual right system”, Legitech RPIN, 2025/24-25, p. 46-54.
In the CAVE: An Ethics Podcast
In the CAVE: An ethics podcast, is back with Season 7 of the show! Join your hosts, Professor Paul Formosa and Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers, from the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre, as they explore a range of philosophical topics focused on the question of how we can live well as moral agents in an ethically complex world.