OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series::A new research paper laid out ways in which AI developers should try and avoid showing LLMs have been trained on copyrighted material.

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      An LLM is not a person, it is a product. It doesn’t matter that it “learns” like a human - at the end of the day, it is a product created by a corporation that used other people’s work, with the capacity to disrupt the market that those folks’ work competes in.

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          You are somehow conflating “massive corporation” with “independent creator,” while also not recognizing that successful LLM implementations are and will be run by massive corporations, and eventually plagued with ads and paywalls.

          People that make things should be allowed payment for their time and the value they provide their customer.

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          If they had their way they are going to lock up much more of the net behind paywalls.

          This!

          When the Internet was first a thing corpos tried to put everything behind paywalls, and we pushed back and won.

          Now, the next generation is advocating to put everything behind a paywall again?

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          Except the massive corporations and entities are the ones getting rich on this. They’re seeking to exploit the work of authors and musicians and artists.

          Respecting the intellectual property of creative workers is the anti corporate position here.

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            Except corporations have infinitely more resources(money, lawyers) compared to people who create. Take Jarek Duda(mathematician from Poland) and Microsoft as an example. He created new compression algorythm, and Microsoft came few years later and patented it in Britain AFAIK. To file patent contest and prior art he needs 100k£.

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              I think there’s an important distinction to make here between patents and copyright. Patents are the issue with corporations, and I couldn’t care less if AI consumed all that.

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                And for copyright there is no possible way to contest it. Also when copyright expires there is no guarantee it will be accessable by humanity. Patents are bad, copyright even worse.

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          First, we don’t have to make AI.

          Second, it’s not about it being unable to learn, it’s about the fact that they aren’t paying the people who are teaching it.

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              The reasoning that claims training a generative model is infringing IP would still mean a robot going into a library with a card it has to optically read all the books there to create the same generative model would still be infringing IP.

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              Humans can judge information make decisions on it and adapt it. AI mostly just looks at what is statistically what is most likely based on training data. If 1 piece of data exists, it will copy, not paraphrase. Example was from I think copilot where it just printed out the code and comments from an old game verbatim. I think Quake2. It isn’t intelligence, it is statistical copying.

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                Well, mathematics cannot be copyrighted. In most countries at least.

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              because it might hurt authors and musicians and artists and other creative workers

              FTFY. Corporations shouldn’t be making a fucking dime from any of these works without fairly paying the creators.