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The question I think is what is the scope of copyright? I think historically it's about copying wholesale and redistributing for profit. That doesn't seem to b
by joncrocks 3y ago
The question I think is what is the scope of copyright?
I think historically it's about copying wholesale and redistributing for profit. That doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
If I read a publicly available article, and I create a summary, is that covered by copyright? If I get an AI to do that, is that somehow a 'special' type of summary that is covered?
Can a provider of content somehow say "you may not use this for summarization"? Or apply other terms to my consumption if they are making it publicly available?
I think the comparison is that if you ask a person something like:
"Describe a power station?"
They will likely have never been in a power station. They will be leaning heavily pieces of content they have consumed over the years, that presumably were copyrighted. If you create an article that describes a power station, have you breached copyright and should be sued by all the people over the years that have produced content about power stations?
Is it suddenly different when a computer does it?
- bmitc 3y ago> Is it suddenly different when a computer does it? The answer is yes. Everyone here knows where this is heading, and yet people will sit here and defend these companies as if they're on some righteous path. Humans are already becoming disposable statistics and the engines of compute, all for free and all for the benefit of corporations who didn't pay for any of it and don't even contribute back taxes.