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AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content (www.theverge.com)
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AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content::The companies building generative AI tools like ChatGPT say updated copyright laws could interfere with their ability to train capable AI models. Here are comments from OpenAI, StabilityAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft and more.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

But if they make money with someone’s years of work writing a book, then please give that author some money as well.

Why? I've read many books on programming, and now I work as a programmer. The authors of those books don't get a percentage of my income just because they spent years writing the book. I've also read (and written) plenty of open source code over the years, and learned from that code. That doesn't mean I have to give money to all the people who contributed to those projects.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you bought the books

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He might've borrowed them from a library.

OpenAI could've trained on borrowed ebooks as well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Like with most things, consent and intent matter. I went out on Halloween when I was a kid and got free candy, so why is it bad if I break in and steal other people's candy?