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There’s a reason why companies break things and ask for forgiveness later Can you imagine Uber or open AI trying to get all the proper rules out the gate? It
by xivzgrev 3y ago
There’s a reason why companies break things and ask for forgiveness later
Can you imagine Uber or open AI trying to get all the proper rules out the gate? It would either be a non starter or extremely expensive. And at the end of the day it’d be a watered down version of what’s possible. The power is all in the established hands. Perhaps the AI is trained on newspapers but not movies.
By doing what they did, they showed what’s possible and how excited users are. Now there’s a balance of power and both sides can come to a compromise.
Additionally, if you ask for permission people have to imagine how things will be and for something innovative that’s hard. Can you imagine open AI explaining to the New York Times what chat gpt was going to be, before it was released? At best they’d have some kind of approximation or worst just not understand and seek to kill it.
I would’ve done the same thing as open AI because it’s the most valuable thing, there’s enough legal grey area to not be flagrantly in the wrong, and things will get sorted later. Same thing with Uber - technically it was “ride sharing”, someone is going from point a to b and you as passenger just happen to join them, but obviously quickly expanded beyond that
- johneth 3y ago> By doing what they did, they showed what’s possible and how excited users are. I agree. > Now there’s a balance of power and both sides can come to a compromise. The only side that needs to compromise is OpenAI (et al). They used someone else's property without permission or compensation for commercial benefit.
- cj 3y ago> Additionally, if you ask for permission people have to imagine how things will be and for something innovative that’s hard. OpenAI could have used this ignorance to their advantage! (Prior to ChatGPT release) They could have went to NYT pre-2023, said "Hey, can we pay you $100k to come to your offices and run some machine learning algorithm on your content library? We can even do it in an air gapped clean room because we don't need to take copies of your content home with us" -- they very well may have said "Sure, what's the harm in that, come in next week"