Re:The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microso...
by lelanthran on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:21PM
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> If something takes in information, learns from it, and spits out information as a result of its learning, then why does the implementation matter at all?
Legally, the implementation may not matter at all, but the scale does.
The precedent is absolutely clear in legislation, for just about any category of crime or civil tort you can think of.
Just one example: you get caught with a single joint (in a place where it isn't legal, of course) you're looking at a fine ... maybe. Most places have had exemptions for possession of a single joint.
You get caught with 225 tons of weed all processed and packaged in a warehouse, you're going to jail!
You need to justify why you believe that, in the case of LLMs and AIs, an exception should be made so that the scale is not considered.
I haven't seen any justification why the justice system should make an exemption for LLMs when it comes to scale.
Scale matters, and has matter in every modern 1st world jurisdiction going back hundreds of years.
You want to overturn that? Provide an argument other than "If it doesn't matter when a single article is used to learn, it shouldn't matter when billions of words are used in the learning."
Legally, the implementation may not matter at all, but the scale does.
The precedent is absolutely clear in legislation, for just about any category of crime or civil tort you can think of.
Just one example: you get caught with a single joint (in a place where it isn't legal, of course) you're looking at a fine ... maybe. Most places have had exemptions for possession of a single joint.
You get caught with 225 tons of weed all processed and packaged in a warehouse, you're going to jail!
You need to justify why you believe that, in the case of LLMs and AIs, an exception should be made so that the scale is not considered.
I haven't seen any justification why the justice system should make an exemption for LLMs when it comes to scale.
Scale matters, and has matter in every modern 1st world jurisdiction going back hundreds of years.
You want to overturn that? Provide an argument other than "If it doesn't matter when a single article is used to learn, it shouldn't matter when billions of words are used in the learning."