Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates
keegomatic@lemmy.world 1 week agoIt’s not hypocritical if you believe that theft is wrong because it hurts another person, rather than wrong because you don’t deserve the thing or that it offers you an unfair advantage. Your argument leans heavily on the latter but mine the former.
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Then please explain how pirating movies or games doesn’t cause harm to other people but training AI with the copyrighted work of others does.
In both cases you’re taking something for free that you’re expected to pay for. In both cases there’s someone not getting paid. The only difference between the two that I can see is the scale which is irrelevant from the point of view of the argument I’m making which is that it’s hypocritical to be against one but not the other.
keegomatic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I never said I thought training AI with the copyrighted work of others causes harm to others. If anything, I think training is analogous enough to human learning that it’s a gray area. However, I think there are different ethical concerns with AI training data than there are with piracy, and those concerns mostly arise from the profit being made from the models.