The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

Re:The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copy... by kevincox on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:46PM (#38784412)

I think you are looking at current AI product rather than the underlying technology. It's like saying that the wheel is a useless invention because it has only been used for unicycles so far. I'm sure that AI will have huge impacts in medicine (assisting diagnosis from medical tests) and agriculture (identifying issues with areas of crops, scanning for diseases and increasing automation of food processing) as well as likely nearly every other field.

I don't know if I would agree that it is "probably the single most important development in human history" but I think that it is way to early to make a reasonable guess of if it will or not.

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Re:The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copy... by ngetchell on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @04:14PM (#38786820)

Aren't those examples better handled by an if statement than a unaccountable computer? Someone that can be sued for negligence seems to be better at making decisions than hallucinating computers.

I don't see why it follows that the NYT should be sacrificed so some rich people in silicon valley can teach their LLM on the cheap.

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