Re:The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language model...
by miki123211 on Friday March 08, 2024 @01:33AM
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Style transfer is perfectly legal AFAIK, asking artists to do a drawing of X in the style of Y was already a thing. Style is not copyrightable.
Re:The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language model...
by bayindirh on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:38AM
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I didn't mean to say style transfer is illegal, it's not, but doing it en-masse is unethical.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. That's what I'm trying to say.
Re:The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language model...
by rasz on Friday March 08, 2024 @03:33AM
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Its not always that simple https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/blurred-lines-...
Same for code generating models trained on Open Source and Free Software. Tons of licenses violated, from strong copyleft to source available models and reproduced (almost) verbatim with comments intact.
Some researcher's codebase is almost completely reproducible without any licensing information just by hinting the function names.
Maybe for the image compression it's borderline impossible for now due to network size, but for text and code, generation of training data almost verbatim is very possible and straightforward.
Also in image generation models, style transfer is the bigger problem, because it completely eliminates the artist who uses/created the style in the first place. "You pioneered this, and we fine tuned this model with your images, and we can do your work for free, without you, have a nice day". However, the artist's life expenses doesn't disappear when they're transferred to an image generation model.
This is also unethical.