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The people training LLMs have billions of dollars and the people using it to read that can't afford a $300 journal do not. So training is legal and reading is
by outside2344 2y ago
The people training LLMs have billions of dollars and the people using it to read that can't afford a $300 journal do not.
So training is legal and reading is illegal.
- ErikAugust 2y agoSo, the solution to legal problems is… money? Lots of money?
- exe34 2y agobeautifully put, thank you! it's the golden rule - those with the gold make up the rules.
- 77pt77 2y agoGold or money is a just proxy for power. Power is the final crux here.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoThey are cross fungible and leverage able, so this is a silly empty distinction. But money has historically been more effective at producing or controlling power than the other way around.
- 77pt77 2y agoThey are not cross fungible. Money/gold is a proxy in the current social system.
- exe34 2y agothat's right, the neanderthals didn't use gold, they hit each other with clubs.
- ffsm8 2y agoI'm not sure I can agree with that, because historically speaking would include the time we had nobility. And in that time period, having money would not provide you with power, as nobles were beyond the law and could simply cease it for themselves.
- exe34 2y agomoney would buy you mercenaries to overthrow the nobility.