▲ 580 ▼ Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 139 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) My brain also takes information and creates derivative works from it. Shit, am I also a data thief? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago That depends, do you copy verbatim? Or do you process and understand concepts, and then create new works based on that understanding? If you copy verbatim, that's plagiarism and you're a thief. If you create your own answer, it's not. Current AI doesn't actually "understand" anything, and "learning" is just grabbing input data. If you ask it a question, it's not understanding anything, it just matches search terms to the part of the training data that matches, and regurgitates a mix of it, and usually omits the sources. That's it. It's a tricky line in journalism since so much of it is borrowed, and it's likewise tricky w/ AI, but the main difference IMO is attribution, good journalists cite sources, AI rarely does. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago That depends, do you copy verbatim? Or do you process and understand concepts, and then create new works based on that understanding? If you copy verbatim, that's plagiarism and you're a thief. If you create your own answer, it's not. Current AI doesn't actually "understand" anything, and "learning" is just grabbing input data. If you ask it a question, it's not understanding anything, it just matches search terms to the part of the training data that matches, and regurgitates a mix of it, and usually omits the sources. That's it. It's a tricky line in journalism since so much of it is borrowed, and it's likewise tricky w/ AI, but the main difference IMO is attribution, good journalists cite sources, AI rarely does. permalink fedilink source parent