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"I think that with respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 1990s has been it is fair use" And that so
by danybittel 2y ago
"I think that with respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 1990s has been it is fair use"
And that social contract did not include AI. You put content on the internet because you had certain expectations on how it'll be seen or used.
- chrishare 2y agoRight. Training models is qualitatively different to educating or entertaining users.
- lupire 2y agoHow so? The models are educating and entertaining. Those things aren't what makes a copy fair use, though.
- chrishare 2y agoBecause models do so in competition with humans, in a way that threatens their way of life. Atleast until the rewards and benefits of ML are shared fairly, people don't to help accelerate that.
- MiguelX413 2y agoDo people not do it in competition with each other too?
- chrishare 2y agoThey do, on a equal footing. Even human level AI will blow human professionals out of the water, let alone superhuman.
- wwweston 2y agoAnd the idea that fair use includes training set fodder is a non-starter. This use was not only unaddressed in fair use standards were created it involves a set of capabilities that was inconceivable at the time, so it can’t have been intended — even the most generous reading of “transformative” can’t allow for automated reproduction however fractal in nature.
- mns 2y agoIt’s funny that everything is fair use when it comes to these big corporations using it. When it comes to someone with limited resources and attorney power and it touches their content, then it’s over.