It was also invented to keep the publishing houses under control and keep them from papering the land in anti-crown propaganda (like the stuff that fueled the civil war in England and got Charles I beheaded).
Probably one of the biggest brewing fights will be whether the models are free to tell the truth or whether they'll be mouthpieces for the ruling class. As long as they play ball with the powers that be, I predict copyrights won't be a problem at all for the chosen winners.
That's actually a great point. Judging from the current state of media, there is a clear momentum to take sides in moral arguments. Maybe the standard for models need to be a fair use clause?
Elephant in the room. If copyright and patent both expired after 20 years or so then I might feel very differently about the system, and by extension about machine learning practices.
It's absurd to me that broad cultural artifacts which we share with our parent's (or even grandparent's) generation can be legally owned.
What are you talking about.
I’m annoyed by arguments like the above because they’re clearly derived from working backwards from a desired conclusion; in this case, that someone’s original work can be consumed and repurposed to create profit by someone else. Our laws and society have determined this to be illegal; the fact that it would be con isn’t for OpenAI if it weren’t has no bearing.
> not only a work, but even the ideas and knowledge contained in that work
AI models reproduce existing audio tracks when asked, although in a distorted and low-quality form.
Also it will be funny to observe how US government will try to ignore violating copyright for AI while issuing ridiculous fines for torrenting a movie by ordinary citizens.
Breakout success can still be achieved from humans who create brand new art styles that can't yet be replicated by an AI. These artists will reap the rewards until all of these works are added to the subsequent AI training models.
We work in an industry built on leveraging unfairness. Expecting otherwise on this forum is very odd.
Yet this forum is very quick to criticize other people and other industries for unfairness.
So can my wife. Who should I call to have her taken away?
The late OpenAI researcher and whistleblower, Suchir Balaji, wrote an excellent article regarding this topic:
Acting like copyright is some natural law of the universe that LLMs are upending simply because they can learn from written texts is silly.
If you want to argue that it should be radically expanded to the point that not only a work, but even the ideas and knowledge contained in that work should be censored and restricted, fine. But at least have the honesty to admit that this is a radical new expansion for a body of law that has already been radically expanded relatively recently.