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To me, it was a tasteless and awful act, but not illegal. Anyone else see that distinction?
by awakeasleep 1y ago
To me, it was a tasteless and awful act, but not illegal. Anyone else see that distinction?
- blibble 1y agowillful commercial copyright infringement at scale is a felony
- ekianjo 1y agoTraiñing models is not copyright infrigement
- blibble 1y agothat remains to be seen and especially outside of the united states most countries have no concept of "fair use" whatsoever
- ekianjo 1y agoEven fan art manga in Japan is a thing so fair use is more widespread than you may think
- trollbridge 1y agoGenerating obviously infringing material is, though, even if there are lots of intermediate steps to do so.
- ekianjo 1y agoWhat is obviously infringing? If this was the case then why don't they sue OpenAI directly if it's so "obvious".
- sim7c00 1y agonice opinion. now base it on laws and regulations that apply to these companies and show whether it is actually legal or not... - this is not a realm of feelings.
- energy123 1y agoBut there's a related question of what the law ought to be, regardless of whether or not it's currently illegal, which is where feelings do come in. In the case of a new technology colliding with old laws, this is the most important discussion to have.
- rcvassallo83 1y agoI'd say it violated the spirit the law but not the letter.
- sim7c00 1y agoHOW? - why say such a thing and not _show_ it. show the letter that was not violated and where this spirit lives. so many people giving their feelings about laws, about 1s and 0s. -_- what is this stack overflow?
- ForHackernews 1y agoLaws are not code, they are subject to interpretation by the judiciary. The spirit of the law is that transformative use is fair use, but at the time those laws were written no one had conceived of generative AI. It seems very reasonable to me that we as a society might stop and reassess. It is not a foregone conclusion that all the treasure of humanity be handed over to @sama for a tuppence.
- mongol 1y agoI don't see why it would not be illegal. I don't see the difference between downloading or copying a movie for watching on a TV or for training AI, from copyright point of view
- tjpnz 1y agoNot illegal where? If you're in Japan here's a fun thing to try: 1. Ask ChatGPT to generate some Ghibli-likes for you. 2. Find a local photo printing store prepared to print and blockmount them for you (this is actually the hardest part - most will politely tell you to piss off). 3. List them on Mercari or Rakuma. 4. Regularly relist them as they're periodically removed for violating local counterfeiting laws. 5. Eventually explain yourself to a judge and maybe go to prison for a year. Technically you only need to do 1 and some of 2 to be committing a crime in Japan.