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OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material (arstechnica.com)
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Apparently, stealing other people's work to create product for money is now "fair use" as according to OpenAI because they are "innovating" (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?

"Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression—including blogposts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents—it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials," wrote OpenAI in the House of Lords submission.

OpenAI claimed that the authors in that lawsuit "misconceive[d] the scope of copyright, failing to take into account the limitations and exceptions (including fair use) that properly leave room for innovations like the large language models now at the forefront of artificial intelligence."

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Any company replacing humans with AI is going to regret it. AI just isn't that good and probably won't ever be, at least in it's current form. It's all an illusion and is destined to go the way of Bitcoin, which is to say it will shoot up meteorically and seem like the answer to all kinds of problems, and then the reality will sink in and it will slowly fade to obscurity and irrelevance. That doesn't help anyone affected today, of course.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    I mostly disagree (especially on the long term), but hope you're right

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

    It's garbage for programming. A useful tool but not one that can be used by a non-expert. And I've already had to have a conversation with one of my coworkers when they tried to submit absolutely garbage code.

    This isn't even the first attempt at a smart system that enables non-programmers to write code. They've all been garbage. So, too, will the next one be but every generation has to try it for themselves. AGI might have some potential some day, but that's a long long way off. Might as well be science fiction.

    Other disciplines are affected differently, but I constantly play with image and text generation and they are all some flavor of garbage. There are some areas where AI can excel but they are mostly professional tools and not profession replacements.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It was of no use whatsoever to programming or image generation or writing a few years ago. This thing has developed very quickly and will continue to. Give it 5 years and I think things will look very differently.

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