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Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head (www.theguardian.com)

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In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

my head [...] not a distributable copy.

There has been an interesting counter-proposal to that: make all copies "non-distributable" by replacing the 1:1 copying, by AI:AI learning, so the new AI would never have a 1:1 copy of the original.

It's in part embodied in the concept of "perishable software", where instead of having a 1:1 copy of an OS installed on your smartphone/PC, a neural network hardware would "learn how to be a smartphone/PC".

Reinstalling, would mean "killing" the previous software, and training the device again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, because the cool part of upgrading your phone is trying to make it feel like its your phone, from scratch. Perishable software is anything but desirable, unless you enjoy having the very air you breathe sold to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, depends on desirable "by whom".

Imagine being a phone manufacturer and having all your users running a black box only you have the means to re-flash or upgrade, with software developers having to go through you so you can train users' phones to "behave like they have the software installed"

It's a dictatorial phone manufacturer's wet dream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's exactly my problem with it.