Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot
by mikro2nd on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:44AM
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No. Opt-out is exactly the wrong approach. Instead consider a flag indicating that "I'm OK with mu source being used for training AI models." i.e. opt-in.
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The problem is that defaults are very powerful. I could equally well argue that the Internet Archive shouldn't archive my website unless I give them opt-in permission. Of course, if that were the case, the Internet Archive effectively wouldn't exist.
ADDED: To be clear, it may be fine to say that making certain things opt-in means that other things that many might value can't exist.
The counterpoint here is that the internet archive isn’t a for profit service which is claiming exact reproductions of other people’s content as “new work”
Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot
by bluefirebrand on Saturday July 10, 2021 @02:18PM
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> The problem is that defaults are very powerful
This isn't the problem, it's the whole point.
Things need to be made opt-in because we want there to be a meaningful barrier to companies using data that does not belong to them in order to make money.