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A huge win for countries with lax copyright laws. These things aren't going away, the worst case scenario would be exactly that scenario playing out - then Chin
by StableAlkyne 3y ago
A huge win for countries with lax copyright laws. These things aren't going away, the worst case scenario would be exactly that scenario playing out - then China (or some other peer to the US's tech sector) just continues developing them to achieve an economic advantage. All in addition to the obvious political implications of AI chatbots being controlled by them.
The LLM genie is out of the bottle: an unfavorable court ruling in a single country isn't going to stuff it back in.
- geysersam 3y agoDo LLM really give an economic advantage though? I've mostly seen them used to write quirky poems and bad code. People are scrambling to find use-cases but it's not very convincing so far. On the other hand, if LLM are used to "launder" copyright content and, accepting the premises of copyright law, this has the effect of reducing incentives to do creative work, that has obvious negative implications for economic productivity.
- StableAlkyne 3y ago> I've mostly seen them used to write quirky poems and bad code. Assuming this is in good faith: the ability to write code, documentation, and tests is absolutely a productivity enhancer to an existing programmer. The code snippets from a dedicated tool like copilot are of very usable quality if you're using a popular language like Python or JS.
- __loam 3y agoI don't give a shit about what China does.