Comment on AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months agoAI legally can’t create its own copywritable content. Indeed, it can not learn. It can only produce models that we tune on datasets. Those datasets being copywritten content. Im a little tired of the anthropomorphizing of ais. They are statistical models not children.
No sir, I didn’t copy this book, I trained ten thousand ants to eat cereal but only after running an ink well and then a maze that I got them to move through in a way that deposits the ink where I need it to be in order to copy this book.
The AI isn’t being accused of copyright infringement. The humans and corporations who create/run the AI are being accused of that.
Wether you write a copy of a book with a pen, or type it into a keyboard, or photograph every page, or scan it with a machine learning model (notice the word “learning”…) is completely irrelevant. The question is - did you (the human using the pen/keyboard/camera/ai model) break copyright law?
I’d argue no, but other people think it is.
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s called learning. You learn by taking in information, then you use that information to produce something new.
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It isn’t. Statistical models do not learn. That’s just how we anthropomorphic them. They bias.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You could say the same about humans.
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
no, you literally can not.