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There are no such thing as "AI bros", AI training costs millions of dollars. It's a very different field than cryptocurrency where mining could be done by indiv
by stuckinhell 3y ago
There are no such thing as "AI bros", AI training costs millions of dollars.
It's a very different field than cryptocurrency where mining could be done by individuals in the early days.
You see corporate tactics being deployed in a wide variety of ways to secure a social, legal, and economic moats, since apparently they have limited technology only based moat.
It's similar to how google files various amicus briefs against copyrights.
Google v. Oracle (2020): This was a landmark case in which Google was a party. The case revolved around whether copyright protection extended to a software interface. Google argued that APIs, which allow different software programs to communicate with each other, should not be subject to copyright. Google filed an amicus brief in its own case, arguing that a decision in favor of Oracle would stifle innovation in the tech industry.
Authors Guild v. Google (2015): This case involved Google's project to digitize millions of books from public and university libraries. The Authors Guild argued that Google was infringing on authors' copyrights. Google argued that its use of the books was fair use because it only showed snippets of the books in search results. Google filed an amicus brief in this case as well.
Aereo Case (2014): Google filed an amicus brief in support of Aereo, a company that provided a service for streaming broadcast television over the internet. Broadcasters sued Aereo, arguing that the service infringed on their copyrights. Google argued that a ruling against Aereo could have broad implications for cloud storage services.
Viacom v. YouTube (2012): In this case, Viacom sued YouTube, which is owned by Google, for copyright infringement. Google filed an amicus brief arguing that YouTube was protected by the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which protect service providers from liability for user-generated content.
Big Tech is often against Copyrights because they believe they have the economic moat to beat other players.
- nologic01 3y ago> There are no such thing as "AI bros", AI training costs millions of dollars It is early days, in contrast with minting digital gold using software here the costs will come down. In any case not every "AI" model and application needs to pass Turing-test levels of language sophistry. While you are right that (large) corporate interests are (and will be) the main actors here, I would not underestimate "noise traders" and other useful fools. With AI mania reaching apoplectic levels there is a wide population of actors that want to somehow get into the game. The availability of open source AI models is an enabler in this respect, which may explain also the "leakage". Incidentally this issue is something the open source community needs to internalize and have a very clear position about.