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All current AIs are based on stolen content.
If nothing is taken from anyone and no profit is made from a model trained on publicly accessible data - can you elaborate on how that constitutes theft?
Actually - if 100% copy righted content is used to train a model, which is released for free and never monetized - is that theft?
People downloading stuff for personal use vs making money off of it are not the same at all. We don't tend to condone people selling bootleg DVDs, either.
Publicly accessible does not mean it is free of copyright. Yes, copyright law in it's current form sucks and is in dire need to get reformed, preferably close to the original duration (14+14 years). But as the law currently stands, those LLM parrots are based on illegally acquired data.
Publically accessible does not mean publically reusable. You can find a lot of classic songs on YouTube and in libraries. You can’t edit them into your Hollywood movie without paying royalties.
Showing them to an AI for them to repeat the melody with 90% similarity is not a free cheat to get around that.
This is in part why the GPL and other licenses exist. Linus didn’t just put up Linux and say “Do whatever!” He explicitly said “You MAY copy and modify this work, but it must keep this license, this ownership, and you may NOT sell the transformed work”. That is a critical part of many free licenses, to ensure people don’t abuse them.
If nothing is taken from anyone and no profit is made from a model trained on publicly accessible data - can you elaborate on how that constitutes theft?
Actually - if 100% copy righted content is used to train a model, which is released for free and never monetized - is that theft?
You mean commercial LLMs.
AI as a term includes machine learning systems that go back decades.
Cool. So you're in support of developing a model that financially compensates all of the rights holders used for its training data then?
Yes, I am. But i don't expect them to do that.
Good!
I don't either. But they probably should. And that's a reasonable position to take.
Sort this one with the girlfriend’s “would you still love me if I was a worm” philosophy. It’s so far outside of reality it’s not worth considering.
-- and are being used by rich sociopaths to replace the very people that made that content.
Thats on top of the large pile of shit.