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As soon as someone figures out how to DCMA the AI industry the whole industry will become enshittified. It all relies on copyright infringement and “generative”
by dangus 2y ago
As soon as someone figures out how to DCMA the AI industry the whole industry will become enshittified. It all relies on copyright infringement and “generative” AI doesn’t generate as much as it originally promised, it’s more like an extremely advanced search engine with the ability to combine and edit the source data.
An analogy is music producers who sample other tracks, who most definitely have to pay royalties.
If it was as easy to detect trained AI data as it is to detect a music video or movie in a YouTube video, every AI company would be toast.
You’d basically have a category of application whose cost is so high it’s hard to justify. You’ve gotta run the world’s most expensive type of computing to do the AI training and you have to license a massive amount of work from copyright owners for it to have any use.
To swing this back to being more related to the article at hand, I think that being open to the public can be okay if BlueSky or people who publish content on the platform are better able to exert their rights under copyright law. When I post something online I shouldn’t be giving up my copyright rights just because it’s hard to enforce.
If there was a law that was truly progressive about online privacy it would protect individuals’ intellectual property rights more on social networks. A social media company shouldn’t magically get to own my content just because they said so in their EULA.
- NavinF 2y agoThat's not how the scaling laws work. The number of samples required to reach a given quality level reduces exponentially over time. Most researchers use small datasets.
- dangus 2y agoInteresting, because in The New York Times' lawsuit there is a very large block of text repeated verbatim. Page 30: https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec2023.pdf https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec20... How much of a copyrighted work do I have to copy and reproduce/redistribute to violate copyright law? Am I allowed to sell my handheld recording of the last two minutes of Gladiator 2 for $1.99 at the flea market?
- NavinF 2y agoThat has nothing to do with my comment. My point is that generative ai models can achieve good perf without using large datasets
- dangus 2y agoIn theory. In practice, it’s a plagiarism machine. If they didn’t need the large dataset why did they use it? And honestly I think you need to provide more proof of your assertion since it’s so far off of the status quo lived experience of AI. I ask ChatGPT about product specifications and other specific search engine-like queries like that and I get accurate answers. If there’s no big dataset where is that information coming from? Nothing is being generated, I’m getting regurgitated product specs and reviews when I ask for them.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoYou don't have to give your data to social media companies, you know. That's just part of the trade off in using their apps.
- __loam 2y agoA lot of creative professionals work on commission. Social media is basically a requirement if you want to make money in certain artistic spaces. If you can't show your work in public you won't get jobs. Catch 22.
- dangus 2y agoMe making a comment on social media: anyone can can redistribute it, they could even charge money to read my comment if they'd like. Disney playing Frozen 2 in the airplane in-flight entertainment system: I'm not allowed to copy, reproduce, distribute, or disseminate it. See the double standard here?