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does Bill Hader spending countless hours watching celebrity scenes to work on his impressions count as training on copyrighted material

• mensetmanusman 3y ago
  No, because you can’t point to the bits where the information is stored.
  • prepend 3y ago
    Certainly you can. You can audit Bill Header’s streaming history to see exactly what he watched and when. But I think that’s immaterial as I think the answer is that it doesn’t matter if you train on copyrighted work. Or maybe better that you don’t need a special license. If I steal books and train on them, then I think that’s copyright infringement not because of the training but because I made an infringing copy. However, if I have a license already to read those books (ie, I bought a copy at a book store) then it’s not infringement to train an AI, or loan it to a million people or whatever I like with it as I bought a copy.
    • Riverheart 3y ago
      “loan it to a million people” Yes but you’re not allowed to copy and distribute so you’re never going to actually do that. Also you’ll pass away with the knowledge you gained unlike the AI you’re training it on which will contain remnants of the work in all copies of itself, however abstracted away you consider it.
      • prepend 3y ago
        I’m allied to make notes and create derived products that are sufficiently distinctive. And I can pass that on to my descendants. I can very legally loan my book or movie to one person a week for all perpetuity so it could be a million people. Does the actual number matter?