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“Exploration” is a funny word for “copyright infringement.” I seem to recall that our society fined college kids $150,000 per song download. I suspect that the

by dangus 1y ago

“Exploration” is a funny word for “copyright infringement.” I seem to recall that our society fined college kids $150,000 per song download. I suspect that the amount of freely available text, video, and audio will decrease once entities like Disney start winning lawsuits. Alternatively, anyone who doesn’t want their work to be crawled and trained from will keep their work behind login/paywalls moving forward. I think it’s entirely fair that there should be a robots.txt type of mechanism for sites to opt out of being crawled for training, and we might see places like the EU come up with something of that sort.

frozenseven 1y ago
>“copyright infringement” Throwing around scary words means very little. You're using a highly unorthodox interpretation of that concept. Even the anti-AI lawsuits are typically focused on specific model outputs or some other technicality. >entities like Disney The same company that's now publishing papers on generative AI? See the HN front page right now. >keep their work behind login/paywalls moving forward At what cost? Raging against a new technology like this is sure to backfire. Not only are you crippling yourself in terms of regular search engine visibility, there's now a non-negligible amount of traffic coming from AI search. And the average person will have even less of a reason to interact with you. Logins/paywalls are a nuisance. Especially if AI is producing competitive results to whatever you have to offer.