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Re:High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can pro... by prvc on Saturday December 09, 2023 @12:40AM (#38578958)
If including a copyrighted work in an AI training corpus is theft because of its influence on some artificial neural net, then so is viewing it by a human being, whose memory is now somehow the property of the copyright holder, an absurd conclusion.
Re:High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can pro... by naet on Saturday December 09, 2023 @12:48AM (#38579005)
There's a massive jump in that logic, which is basically equating a large neural net to being exactly the same as a singular human being. If you ask me that is clearly not the case. They operate in entirely different ways and have very different properties.
Re:High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can pro... by prvc on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:15AM (#38579153)
>There's a massive jump in that logic, which is basically equating a large neural net to being exactly the same as a singular human being.

It does not assume that.

Re:High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can pro... by CamperBob2 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:10AM (#38579134)
Are you willing to give up this point of view the first time you fail a Turing test? It seems only fair.
Re:High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can pro... by poidos on Saturday December 09, 2023 @12:44AM (#38578990)
Your premise that a neural net is equivalent to a human brain seems much more absurd.
Re:High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can pro... by prvc on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:49AM (#38579327)
You wouldn't look at a car.
Re:High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can pro... by notahacker on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:32AM (#38581014)
Well if we're concluding that training a neural net and a human mind forming memories is exactly the same thing, I'm looking forward to all their defenders agreeing that the neural nets should be held criminally responsible every time they generate an image deemed unlawful in certain jurisdictions...

Otherwise there's obviously a legally relevant distinction between a human mind which is ascribed agency to decide if and how to use its memories of copyrighted material, and importing into an information retrieval system which can't help but spit out transformations of parts of its inputs on demand, (including lossy representations of the Getty watermark if it's fed enough Getty material, or an exact facsimile of an image if that's all it's trained on...)

Re:High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can pro... by anonymousab on Saturday December 09, 2023 @08:57AM (#38581948)
Humans are not treated the same as machines and business ventures. Many things are illegal for the latter and are not thought crimes for the former.