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I am not saying that using knowledge is a copyright violation. Sorry but I think we're talking past each other. Inputting entire books verbatim into a model is
by everly 3y ago
I am not saying that using knowledge is a copyright violation. Sorry but I think we're talking past each other.
Inputting entire books verbatim into a model is not the same as a human learning a fact and using it later.
- imgabe 3y agoThe book does not exist verbatim within the model. You cannot open the model and find the full text of some copyrighted work anywhere. The model just trains a set of weights for a neural network, then probabilistically generates text in response to prompts. And yeah, humans "input entire books verbatim" (aka, reading) and then regurgitate that knowledge later when they determine it is likely to be an appropriate response to a question or comment from someone else. It's really not that different. It doesn't even have to be a fact. How many responses on the Internet are just quotes from movies or TV shows?
- data-ottawa 3y agoThe point the above poster is making is that copying a book into a training set is the copyright violation, the model using the trained weights to make an inference is not.