Seeing as laws can’t be applied retroactively, what would have been the alternative?
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_sideffect@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A bit late now, isn’t it?
All the big corporations have already trained most of their current ai, so all this does is put the up and comers at a disadvantage.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 months ago
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Making all models copyleft, so everything made with public data belongs to the public.
MagicShel@programming.dev 2 months ago
It could halt the progress of improving their models and stagnate the whole technology.
That being said, it only halts progress for American companies. Other countries will happily ignore this law and grow beyond our capabilities. I’m not sure if that’s better or worse than the current situation.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Reminds me of Russia before WWI began. They realized they had fallen horribly behind the rest of the world in terms of military technology, so they called an arms limitation treaty conference where they pushed for basically every country in the world to agree to stop inventing any new weapons of any kind.
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 months ago
How’d that work out for them? Answer? Not well. History repeats itself, so here we go!
Kuvwert@lemm.ee 2 months ago
From what I understand the next rounds of ai are being trained on further refined versions of the same datasets and supplemented with synthetic data.
The damage to existing copyrighted content is already done.
Source: I’m a random internet user
General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s all still there. No damage was done.
Kuvwert@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Well, perceived damage anyway. I can’t speak to how IP owners have been effected by LLMs, and I don’t believe it would be easy to quantify.