Comment on AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content
echo64@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
That’s called learning. You learn by taking in information, then you use that information to produce something new.
echo64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It isn’t. Statistical models do not learn. That’s just how we anthropomorphic them. They bias.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You could say the same about humans.
echo64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
no, you literally can not.