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admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 4 months agoI respectfully disagree. I think small time AI (read: pretty much all the custom models on hugging face) will get a giant boost out of this, since they can get away with training on “custom” data sets - since they are too small to be held accountable.
However, those models will become worthless to enterprise level models, since they wouldn’t be able to account for the legality. In other words, once you make big bucks of of AI you’ll have to prove your models were sourced properly. But if you’re just creating a model for small time use, you can get away with a lot.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I am skeptical that this is how it will turn out. I don’t really believe there will be a path from 0$ to challenging big tech without a roadblock of lawyers shutting you down with no way out on the way.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 months ago
I don’t think so either, but to me that is the purpose.
Somewhere between small time personal-use ML and commercial exploitation, there should be ethical sourcing of input data, rather than the current method of “scrape all you can find, fuck copyright” that OpenAI & co are getting away with.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I mean this is exactly the kind of regulation that microsoft/openai is begging for to cement their position. Then is going to be just a matter of digesting their surviving competitors until only one competitor remains, similar to Intel / AMD relationship. Then they can have a 20 year period of stagnation while they progressively screw over customers and suppliers.
I think that’s the bad ending. By desperately trying to keep the old model of intellectual property going, they’re going to make the real AI nightmare of an elite few in control of the technology with an unconstrained ability to leverage the benefits and further solidifying their lead over everyone else.
The collective knowledge of humanity is not their exclusive property. It also isn’t the property of whoever is the lastest person to lay a claim to an idea in effective perpetuity.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 months ago
Why?
Once this passes, OpenAI can’t build ChatGPT on the same (“stolen”) dataset. How does that cement their position?
Taking someone’s creation (without their permission) and turning it into a commercial venture, without giving payment or even attribution is immoral.
If a creator (in the widest meaning of the word) is fine with their works being used as such - great, go ahead. But otherwise you’ll just have to wait before the work becomes public domain (which obviously does not mean publicly available).