Comment on Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works

• Deello@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Creating material that is copyright infridgement is not a desired output

  Agreed.

  the purpose of guns is to kill (when used).

  Guns is a term with varied definitions of which not all are intended to kill. There are rubber bullets, air soft, small caliber, and even paint ball guns. These MAY be lethal but were made with other goals in mind.

  Nvidia on the other hand made GPUs for applications that revolve around video, the G literally stands for graphics. Some people found out that they are also efficient at other tasks so Nvidia made a new line of products for that workload because it was more lucrative. Gamers usually only buy 1 graphics card per machine, a few years ago some would even buy up to 3. In contrast, AI researchers/architects/programmers buy as many as they can afford and constantly buy more. This has made Nvidia change their product stack to cater to the more lucrative customer.

  AI manufacturers depend on copyrighted material to “train” the AI

  With everything I said, these AI creators CHOOSE what to feed into these new tools. They can choose to input things in the public domain or even paid-licensed-content but instead using copyrighted and pirated content is the norm. That is because this is a new field and we are collectively learning where the boundaries are and what is considered acceptable and legal.

  Reddit recently signed a deal to license it’s data (user generated content like posts and comments) for use with AI generation. Other companies are using internal data to tailor their AIs to solve field-specific problems. The problem is that AI, just like guns, is a broad term.

  the method of creation makes it more likely to infridge.

  Nvidia has given us the tools but until we define what is considered acceptable, these kinds of things will be inevitable. I do believe that the authors had their copyrights infringed but they are also going after the wrong people. There have been reports of AI spitting out full books on command, clearly proving that those works were used to train. The authors should be going after the creators of those specific AIs, not Nvidia.

  There is a long and bumpy road ahead.

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t like Nvidia as they’re anti-consumer and anti software freedom, my biased here. In my country guns are not a legal right and I don’t think they should be legalised. That said, guns have a purpose: to stop people that can’t be reasonably stopped non-violently.

    Nvidia is creating AI cards with the expectations people will train it with copyrighted works. Maybe most generated art isn’t infringing (or rather, isn’t caught being infringing). I’m interested to see how much responsibility they are found to share but I’m confident it won’t stop someone doing it.

    I’m not aware of people training AI using public domain works and I have further objections to AI’s use in that case regarding the impact on artists.

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