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0 pointstpxl3y ago0 comments

If creating LLMs based on copyrighted data is found to be legal, all that will do is allow giant companies to sell copyrighted work without crediting the original authors, while leaving everyone else in the dirt.

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andybak3y ago· 2 in thread

> all that will do is allow giant companies to sell copyrighted work without crediting the original authors, while leaving everyone else in the dirt.

I'm not sure I follow. But even accepting your premise - I'm not sure how it will favour giant companies over anyone else. The models are already in the wild and anyone can use them. In some ways - large companies are less likely to do anything that might open them up to legal risks or PR downsides.

Maybe this is more of a Napster moment than it is a big tech powergrab?

tpxlOP3y ago

GPT is owned by Microsoft, LLama by Facebook and Bard by Google. If you trained a model on google public properties and started distributing it for money (or its output), we'd be sued into oblivion real quick.

My point was that the models exist, people are fine tuning them and/or releasing open clones. There are models of comparable power to the state of the art without any controlling interest from a big tech company.

The Google memo covered this in detail and it was what makes me want to question the "AI is owned by big tech" angle.

zeroonetwothree3y ago· 2 in thread

Won’t it actually harm big companies that own the majority of IP currently? It will empower individuals to benefit from creative works more cheaply.

tpxlOP3y ago

The vast majority of IP is not owned by big companies. For every big picture movie there are hundreds of indie movies that will only get a few views.

You're measuring by len(all_media)

Surely a more useful metric is sum(all_media.value)

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