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Good thing that's not global, right? I'm not in the US, our courts work differently.

• angoragoats 2y ago
  I’m sorry for assuming that you were (though you could have mentioned this in your reply). Most of the large AI companies relevant to our discussion are based in the US.
  • throw5959 2y ago
    Will that remain true if they have copyright issues in the US?
    • ben_w 2y ago
      (I'm not the other commenter) I suspect that most of the large AI companies relevant to this discussion will remain based in the US. Most of the money is in the US, China, and the EU. China won't allow any LLM that accidentally says mean things about their government, the EU is worried about AI that may harm individuals by libelling them. The Chinese models may well completely ignore western laws, but if they're on the other side of the Great Firewall, or indeed just have Chinese-language UIs and a focus on Chinese-language tokens in the training… well, I'm not 100% confident, but I would be somewhat surprised if, say, JK Rowling was upset upon discovering that western users attempting to pirate her works via a Chinese chatbot were getting a version of Harry Potter that begins with the title literally being "赫奇帕奇巫师石（哈利·波特与魔法石）" (as ChatGPT just told me the Chinese version starts. Google Translate claims the first three characters are "Hufflepuff"). Even if the rules aren't any harder (as I'm not a lawyer, I can't tell if the differences in copyright rules will or won't make a huge difference in compliance costs), it's likely easier for American companies to lobby the American government for what they want done to make business easier.