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OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 104 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Not only that, but their business model doesn't hold up if they were required to provide their model weights for free because the material that went into it was "free".

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  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    There's also an argument that if the business was that reliant on free things to start with, then it shouldn't be a business.

    No-one would bat their eyes if the CEO of a real estate company was sobbing that it's the end of the rental market, because the company is no longer allowed to get houses for free.

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  • [+] 24 points 2 years ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You misspelled capitalism.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Unregulated capitalism. That’s why people in dominant market positions want less regulation.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Extracting free resources of the land

    Not to be contrarian, but there is a cost to extract those "free" resources; like labor, equipment, transportation, lobbying (AKA: bribes for the non-Americans), processing raw material into something useful, research and development, et cetera.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    even the top phds can learn things off the amount of books that openai could easily purchase, assuming they can convince a judge that if the works aren't pirated the "learning" is fair use. however, they're all pirating and then regurgitating the works which wouldn't really be legal even if a human did it.

    also, they can't really say how they need fair use and open standards and shit and in the next breathe be begging trump to ban chinese models. the cool thing about allowing china to have global influence is that they will start to respect IP more... or the US can just copy their shit until they do.

    imo that would have been the play against tik tok etc. just straight up we will not protect the IP of your company (as in technical IP not logo, etc.) until you do the same. even if it never happens, we could at least have a direct tik tok knock off and it could "compete" for american eyes rather than some blanket ban bullshit.

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