It shouldn’t be illegal
if i learn a book by heart, and then go around making money by reciting it, then that’s illegal. same thing.
godownloadacar@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days ago
That’s not what AI is doing though. A better analogy using your book example would be learning a book by heart, then going and writing a new book in that same style.
Is that illegal? No.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
but that’s not what they’re doing when they’re spitting out open source code verbatim, with no attribution or license
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days ago
They don’t do that.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
except that they regularly do. It isn’t even news at this point
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 days ago
On the other hand, it is not the learning in your example that is illegal, but the recital.
If you learn ten books by heart and make money writing shitty fanfics, thats not necessarily illegal.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
well yeah. And it has been proven time and again that they can, and do, regurgitate that training material out quite often
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 days ago
Yup. I’m saying I don’t think training should be considered breaking copyright. Regurgitating though should.
There are examples of use cases besides the right now obvious one of LLMs “creating” “original” content.
One that comes to my mind is indexing books. Allowing for people to search for books based on a description.