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Re:Open Assistant – project meant to give everyone access to... by pxoe on Monday February 06, 2023 @04:36AM (#34675307)
you bring up human mind as if that'd somehow explain, or excuse, or absolve how broken and poorly planned AI systems are, which, unlike human mind, memories, or thoughts, are very real, and operate with data, precise, definite and not uncertain in its existence, at every point of their actions. minds don't create a definitive list of every work they encounter, in precise detail, they don't create models that incorporate all of those works into a single entity with comprehensive accessibility, and don't enable others (thousands, millions, in hugely disproportional scale) to use those models, directly, to create yet more and more artifacts. all of these things are definite, tangible, transferrable data. minds are pretty much none of these things. but it doesn't matter what minds are, because it's about AI, and AI is a thing that exists, and it can and should be focused on in for its own merit. without sliding conversations into 'well, what about brains'. nothing about them. it's not about brains. it's about existing AI systems. don't slide.

licenses aren't limited to being 'only monetary', 'pay me to use this, otherwise, don't'. some licenses exist to enable distributing things freely, while offering protection of attribution and against misuse of things. (just check out CC licenses). it would be nice if those things would be respected, but they aren't, because there's no mechanism built in that'd discern the licenses, because they don't care. it is not just an attack on 'big bad commercial entities that hold copyrights on works', it's an attack on people who try to protect their works that they give for free, from misuse. those people who knowingly built systems that ignore any copyrights, any licensing, truly aren't the "good guys" who are "battling corporatist copyright systems", even though they'd probably very much like you to believe that, as they so desperately try to avoid being grilled on copyright issues.

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