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It doesn't make sense to me that whether the result of intellectual effort is property or not depends on the legal status of its output, whether its production
by delichon 1y ago
It doesn't make sense to me that whether the result of intellectual effort is property or not depends on the legal status of its output, whether its production involved automation, or if it involved statistical computation. These look like vague justifications to take something made by someone else because it has value to you, without compensation.
- heavyset_go 1y agoI'm looking at this through the lens of US copyright, where the Copyright Office determined that AI output isn't protected by copyright, and thus isn't private IP, as it isn't the creative output of a human being. If the results of inference and generation can't be protected under copyright, as they aren't the creative output of a human being, why wouldn't the results of back-propagation and gradient descent follow the same logic? This isn't about how we feel about it, it's a legal question.
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- rileymat2 1y agoBut things like logarithmic table books existed in a world where the results of the calculations were not protectable as IP, no matter how much effort went into creating them.