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In the music industry, even the tiniest sound sample used in a work entitles the original creator to compensation. It might come to pass that using any portion

In the music industry, even the tiniest sound sample used in a work entitles the original creator to compensation. It might come to pass that using any portion of an author's work in your training data will confer certain rights to the author over the AI generated product. You'll have to perpetually keep records of your training data for commercially available work, lest you be sued. A whole bureaucracy will evolve, a Getty Curated Training Data, public domain training data sets. Basically the same sorts of issues that we've had over the past 30 years, except replacing "internet" with "AI." And if the past is any guide, the forces of capital will prevail commercially, but after aborted attempts to rein them in with lawsuits, hobbyists and kids on social media will be mostly ignored by rights holders.

i_like_apis 4y ago
That would be silly. It’s about outputs not inputs. If you create copyrighted material you must compensate. One day a robot is going to be walking around the world. Will it have to pay someone every time it glimpses a video / book / logo / car design / etc?
- sinity 4y ago
  > One day a robot is going to be walking around the world. Will it have to pay someone every time it glimpses a video / book / logo / car design / etc? Looking at all of the people happily deciding to interpret copyright as widely as possible is kinda horrifying in this context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E > Your stored mind contains sections from 124,564 copyrighted works. In order to continue remembering these copyrighted works, a licensing fee of $18,000 per month is required. > Would you like to continue remembering these works? > [you have insufficient funds to pay this licencing fee] > Thank you. Please stand by. > [Copyrighted works are being deleted] > Welcome to Life. Do you wish to continue?
  - i_like_apis 4y ago
    Yes exactly :) Somehow I trust the law is going to work out ok though, despite all the hot takes from people who don’t really understand ML or copyright. It’s scary to see so many people not understanding the distinction between an input and an output.

i_like_apis 4y ago

That would be silly. It’s about outputs not inputs. If you create copyrighted material you must compensate. One day a robot is going to be walking around the world. Will it have to pay someone every time it glimpses a video / book / logo / car design / etc?

sinity 4y ago
> One day a robot is going to be walking around the world. Will it have to pay someone every time it glimpses a video / book / logo / car design / etc? Looking at all of the people happily deciding to interpret copyright as widely as possible is kinda horrifying in this context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E > Your stored mind contains sections from 124,564 copyrighted works. In order to continue remembering these copyrighted works, a licensing fee of $18,000 per month is required. > Would you like to continue remembering these works? > [you have insufficient funds to pay this licencing fee] > Thank you. Please stand by. > [Copyrighted works are being deleted] > Welcome to Life. Do you wish to continue?
- i_like_apis 4y ago
  Yes exactly :) Somehow I trust the law is going to work out ok though, despite all the hot takes from people who don’t really understand ML or copyright. It’s scary to see so many people not understanding the distinction between an input and an output.