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You do understand that those are humans we are talking about. Humans with lives and livelihoods and wants and needs. Wishing to learn for the sake of learning a
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You do understand that those are humans we are talking about. Humans with lives and livelihoods and wants and needs. Wishing to learn for the sake of learning and growing as well as sustaining themselves? And that openai is a company trying to make money? You do see the enormous difference there I hope?
Let alone the huge shift of power from one to many (one university to many students), to many to one (many resources to one company).
- jameshart 3y agoI don’t get the ‘OpenAI is a company not a person’ argument. Would those arguments go away if the GPT model had been published by a single individual, Satoshi style? The question of whether it’s okay for OpenAI to train an LLM on copyrighted material and sell the results would also go to whether you or I can train an LLM (or finetune one, or do any other kind of ML training), on copyrighted material and make commercial use of the result. It seems to me OpenAI have done the equivalent of distilling a bunch of knowledge down into a book. And they’ve given that book a really good index. They’re essentially an encyclopedia vendor. Just an exceedingly sophisticated one. Back in the olden times publishers used to pay people to write encyclopedia entries based on summarizing stuff they had read in other books. Nowadays we still do the same thing only with volunteer time (Wikipedia requires everything it contains to be externally sourced, after all. You can’t write anything into a Wikipedia article without reading it somewhere copyrighted first). OpenAI’s model isn’t so different. Source material, indexed and summarized to make it easier to search and use.