• radix@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The way I’ve heard it described: If I check out a home repair book and use that knowledge to do some handy-man work on the side, do I owe the publisher a cut of my profits?

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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      1 year ago

      If, without asking for permission, 1 person used my work to learn from it and taught themself to replicate it I’d be honoured. If somebody is teaching a class full of people that, I’d have objections. So when a company is training a machine to do that very same thing, and will be able to do that thousands of time per second, again, without asking for permission first, I’d be pissed.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a terrible analogy.

      Reading a book designed to instruct you how to do tasks is not the same thing as training generative AI with novels, say, to write a novel for you.

      The user of the AI benefits from the work and talent of the authors with little effort of their own.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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        So how about someone who loves to read books wants to become a writer, and uses the plot twists, characters, environments, writing style of books they already read.

        Does that fall under copyright?

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          Depends on how close it is… But at least they are doing the effort of writing vs merely coming up with prompts for the AI.