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People say this like it’s a fact. Until the courts decide otherwise or your AI model is regurgitating copyrighted data verbatim, generative AI is probably not v
by valine 3y ago
People say this like it’s a fact. Until the courts decide otherwise or your AI model is regurgitating copyrighted data verbatim, generative AI is probably not violating copyright.
- junofan 3y agoI dunno, at launch if you asked ChatGPT to make up a new Sir Mix-A-Lot song about big butts, it’d write very familiar lyrics more-or-less verbatim…
- slyall 3y agoLots of people would do the same. I vaguely remember a short science fiction story where people got uploaded to the cloud. There were three options for your memories. The expensive one you got to keep all your memories of Copyright music, video, books. The medium priced one it was replaced with public domain stuff. The cheap one it was all replaced with advertising.
- dasyatidprime 3y agoThe results don't exactly match your description, but a cloud-run self in which multiple plans are available and in which the implications of copyright enforcement and advertising-supported options figure prominently was depicted in the short video “Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers” on Tom Scott's channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
- slyall 3y agoThanks, Pretty sure thats probably the one I was remembering (and confusing the plot elements a bit).
- munchler 3y agoTraining a model with this data might be legal, but distributing the data without a license probably isn't.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoThe courts are in the process of deciding otherwise. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37962244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37962244 Hopefully they won’t, but it’s not looking good. The annoying part is that if they do decide it’s infringement, then open source AI models won’t be allowed to know anything about copyrighted works. It’ll be a big blind spot.
- ImprobableTruth 3y agoWhy would this only apply to open source models? Or are you assuming that a company like OAI could license all the material?
- sillysaurusx 3y agoBingo. Big companies won’t be impacted.