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Right. But the comment above said the issue is with the copy made for training. The "read it and memorized it" copy, not the "write it back down" copy.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Right. But the comment above said the issue is with the copy made for training. The "read it and memorized it" copy, not the "write it back down" copy.
- twoodfin 3y agoThat copy didn’t go into a human’s brain. It went into GPU memory. It’s a copy under the law, no different from copying a Taylor Swift mp3 onto a flash drive. Whether that copy was fair use is the key question.
- prepend 3y agoIf I buy a license to listen to a Taylor Swift mp3, I can copy it onto a flash drive (or anywhere I like to use it). And that’s fine until I distribute copies to others.
- twoodfin 3y agoYes, and if OpenAI had a license to use the Times’ works as model training material this would be a non-issue, of course.
- bandrami 3y agoThere's really not a "license" in that sense for text. There's not some magical way you can use copyright to protect a probability model of the words you make, because that's style and style is not copyrightable (nor are the underlying facts the NYT reports).
- prepend 3y agoI didn’t buy a license for Taylor Swift that explicitly allows me to copy to a flash drive. Or to listen with only one ear, etc. I bought a license to listen and use.
- flir 3y ago> That copy didn’t go into a human’s brain. It went into GPU memory. But as you point out in the router case above, it's transient.