Sentience is the ability to have experiences like pain and tasting sweetness. People usually use the word "sapient" or terms like AGI to describe an AI with advanced reasoning ability. This might sound like nitpicking since I was still able to understand your meaning, but the distinction between sentience/sapience is a useful one to keep around and preserve in common usage, at least for the sake of ethics (e.g. a newborn baby isn't sapient, but is sentient).
Because that’s literally not their job or role. Why would enforcing copyright be in any way shape or form their responsibility?
The problem here is that AI training is probably not actually a copyright issue, some people just wish it was and are trying to manifest one by complaining.
(Similar things exist in online artist communities with rules like "no reposting without crediting the artist" - they think if they just keep telling everyone this is the rule it'll become one.)
On (2), I would like to see companies have no rights over models trained on public data. It's very arguable they should be required to release model weights.
Bonus points if existing rights assignments aren’t enough to count as a grant of permission for AI training.
I downvoted your comment for this statement, given that's a specific worry discussed at length in this article.
IDK, article’s paywalled.
The second point is much more worrying. In the near future, the amount of plausibly-human content generated by machines will dwarf the actually-human content created by real people.
Right now, people reading this comment will assume by default that it has been written by a real person. It might not be long until that default assumption changes.
I remember what people were saying in 2022. Now in 2024, it has become the leftist anti-corporate position to favor strict enforcement of copyright law.
1) AI stuff’s overblown. It’ll be a good tool, becoming just another of many, and probably will improve over time, but we’ll find we’re nowhere near as close to creating silicon sentience as some worry we are.
2) The real problem is letting a few megacorps raid the commons—and hell, lots of stuff that’s not really in the commons at all, basically just all of culture—then gate “their” creations behind a paywall (oh, but that they expect us to respect, because that makes sense), and these AI safety folks don’t seem to give a shit about that.