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by troupe 3y ago
They might even be able to do other things that would make it worth it. Like giving additional vacation for being on call, etc.
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by troupe 3y ago
I agree with you. What I'm trying to differentiate is between the way you obtain a book and whether training an LLM on a book that you own the rights to read should be considered copyright infringement.
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by troupe 3y ago
The whole, "How can I get people to do X when they don't want to do it for $Y?" is just a funny question. It is like asking, "How do I buy a sandwich when no one wants to sell me one for $1?" Of course if everyone e
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by troupe 3y ago
Well yes. If you reproduce passages from a book (from memory or otherwise) and present it as your own, that is copyright infringement. We have lots of well established law about how much things can be similar without infringing. LLMs that a
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by troupe 3y ago
But we already have a way to deal with derived work. Reading a bunch of books and then writing with the ideas you learned is perfectly fine. Copying a paragraph without citing it is not. Mimic the style of authors you want to emulate is fin
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by troupe 3y ago
You are assuming that an LLM is saving a copy of the book it reads.
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by troupe 3y ago
We have legal concepts that fit. Ideas cannot be copyrighted. The particular expression of an idea can be copyrighted, but an idea itself is in the public domain. The ideas you or an LLM get from reading a book are in the public domain whil
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by troupe 3y ago
Yes but then the issue isn't whether copyrighted works can be used as training data, but how you can obtain those works to use them as training data. I agree that you can't justify copyright infringement based on the fact you are
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by troupe 3y ago
Textbooks aren't somehow banned from libraries. You'll find lots of textbooks in public libraries, school libraries, and other libraries where they can be read without paying for the book. Now if you are saying they obtained the b
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by troupe 3y ago
If you are saying that they illegally obtained King's book, then the issue is the fact that the stole the book from somewhere. I don't disagree with your assessment there. But if they checked the book out from the library and let
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by troupe 3y ago
Can you give an example of something that they are trained on that a human can't somehow read without buying?
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by troupe 3y ago
> "Fair use" doesn't generally include taking the author's entire work (or for that matter, his entire lifetime's corpus). If someone studies every one of Stephen King's books, studies King's style, stu
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by troupe 3y ago
You can check the book out at the library and read it. Someone has to buy it, but not necessarily you personally.
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by troupe 3y ago
> they will soon be good enough that they will be able to replace the work of the people that produced the content the AI was trained on Let assume this is true. It then follows that if we train LLM on all books that are out of copyright
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by troupe 3y ago
The talk was specifically saying that despite some very rare mutations, humans have binary sex in the sense that they are XX or XY, so the categorization of skeletons as male and female is a reasonable scientific classification as far as se
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by troupe 3y ago
I think this would be very hard to estimate because it would be hard to tell how many workers work their specifically because of this policy. There are also some customers who shop their specifically because they appreciate the fact that th
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by troupe 3y ago
> Is there a good way to text someone with smart glasses yet? You could stream video from the glasses and then video yourself writing them a note and hope someone else tags them to let them know it was for them.
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by troupe 3y ago
It's great this employee was able to find another remote job that hired them. That is how the market will sort these things out. If there is really no advantage of having people come into the office, then companies that require it will
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by troupe 3y ago
Maybe, but a large number of the 10x employees I've worked with are 10x *because* they are good at collaborating in ways that increase their contribution. Someone who writes 10x as much code in a silo may not be more productive than so
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by troupe 3y ago
I occasionally use DeX. It is fine, if you are needing to read email, browse the web, or do simple word processing, or need a touch interface for drawing. If I'm going to sit down and work for multiple hours, I'd rather be using
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by troupe 3y ago
There may be fewer desktops, but laptops work the same way and they don't seem to be going away any time soon. I'm not aware of "tons of professional writers, lawyers, and other professionals that do lots of writing" who
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by troupe 3y ago
Webex is much better under Cisco than it was on it's own. Cisco's expertise in hardware made for a great combination and has kept the product aligned with interoperable standards more than Zoom and some of the others.
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by troupe 3y ago
That might happen at a small organization, but in large orgs, it is rarely that simple.
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by troupe 3y ago
There are situations where developers emailed/cloud uploaded/took hard drive of code they had been working on when he left the organization and were looking at prison sentences for theft...not copyright infringement. They didn&#x2
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by troupe 3y ago
Good point.
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by troupe 3y ago
Well life expectancy was only 37 years in the 1700s as well. So for an adult, 14 years was basically the rest of their life.
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by troupe 3y ago
> My certifications as a flagger and forklift driver have proved incapable of outshining the glaring label of convicted felon that accompanies them on applications. Perhaps the market is behaving irrationally by not valuing convicted fel
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by troupe 3y ago
Increasingly? Herodotus comes to mind.
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by troupe 3y ago
Frames, both custom and premade, tend to be harder to order online because of shipping and because you often want to actually see it...or someone has to made it for you. Many of the craft or home decor items are similar. Michael's mark
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by troupe 3y ago
Does anyone know how much Bankman-Fried's company paid for those shares? Does this represent a good deal for Robinhood, or are they paying a premium to get them back?

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