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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by dmix on Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:49PM (#37425357)
> Google books was fair use because it was a public benefit

What are the odds the market leaders in LLM right now are just the current day version of Borland-style compilers before open source takes it over?

I've heard arguments the infrastructure part is a long term barrier to entry for OSS development, which will continue to remain in the future. But I don't know enough about it.

Who knows maybe the legal/gov world will move slow enough to miss the bulk of the money-extraction opportunities before OSS takes over and the reality of this problem never going away fully kicks in.

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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by heavyset_go on Friday September 08, 2023 @11:37AM (#37434979)
You'd need millions of dollars to just compile and label datasets. The training itself requires a lot of resources and money, as does human reinforcement.

Open source models would need benefactors with deep pockets.

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