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In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From (futurism.com)
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[–] 128 points 2 years ago (30 children)

They know what they fed the thing. Not backing up their own training data would be insane. They are not insane, just thieves

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (28 children)

    Everyone says this but the truth is copyright law has been unfit for purpose for well over 30 years now. And the lords were written no one expected something like the internet to ever come along and they certainly didn't expect something like AI. We can't just keep applying the same old copyright laws to new situations when they already don't work.

    I'm sure they did illegally obtain the work but is that necessarily a bad thing? For example they're not actually making that content available to anyone so if I pirate a movie and then only I watch it, I don't think anyone would really think I should be arrested for that, so why is it unacceptable for them but fine for me?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    if I pirate a movie and then only I watch it, I don't think anyone would really think I should be arrested for that

    There are definitely people out there that think you should be arrested for that.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Even the police are unsure if it's actually a crime though. Crimes require someone to lose something and no one can point to a lost product so it's difficult to really quantify.

    And it's not even technically breach of copyright since you're not selling it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    But they ARE selling it ... Every answer Chat GPT makes came from possibly stolen material

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

    Isn't that true of every opinion you have. All the knowledge you have is based on works of others that came before you.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not untill I bill you for it

    Also, no there is such a thing as an original thought or opinion... Even if it's informed on other knowledge

    There is a difference between reinterpreting other knowledge and just Frankensteining multiple work together

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

    You're using the word 'stolen' which doesn't fit. It would be accurate to say 'every answer comes from possibly unlicensed material '.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    That is a bad thing if they want to be exempt from the law because they are doing a big, very important thing, and we shouldn't.

    The copyright laws are shit, but applying them selectively is orders of magnitude worse.

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

    if I pirate a movie and then only I watch it, I don't think anyone would really think I should be arrested for that, so why is it unacceptable for them but fine for me?

    Because it's more analogous to watching a video being broadcasted outdoors in the public, or looking at a mural someone painted on a wall, and letting it inform your creative works going forward. Not even recording it, just looking at it.

    As far as we know, they never pirated anything. What we do know is it was trained on data that literally anybody can go out and look at yourself and have it inform your own work. If they're out here torrenting a bunch of movies they don't own or aren't licencing, then the argument against them has merit. But until then, I think all of this is a bunch of AI hysteria over some shit humans have been doing since the first human created a thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    An AI (in its current form) isn't a person drawing inspiration from the world around it, it's a program made by people with inputs chosen by those people. If those people didn't ask permission to use other people's licensed work for their product, then they are plagiarising that work, and they should be subject to the same penalties that, for example, a game company using stolen art in their game should face. An AI doesn't become inspired, it copies existing things to predict what it thinks its user wants to see. If we produce a real thinking AI at some point in the future, one with self determination and whatnot, the story will be different, but for now it isn't.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    What is web scraping if not gathering information from around the world? As long as you're not distributing copyrighted content (and the models in question here don't, btw), then fair use is at play. I'm not plagiarizing the news by reading it or by talking about what I learned, but I would be if I just copy/pasted my response from the article.

    Reading publicly available data isn't a copyright violation, and it certainly isn't a violation of fair use. If it were, then you just plagiarized my comment by reading it before you responded.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Because the actual comparison is that you stole ALL movies, started your own Netflix with them and are lining up to literally make billions by taking the jobs of millions of people, including those you stole from

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    If I paint a melty clock hanging off of a table, how have I stolen from Salvador Dali? What did I "steal" from Tolkien when I drew this?

    you stole ALL movies, started your own Netflix with them

    The model in question can't even try to distribute copyrighted material. You could have easily checked for yourself, but once again I find myself having to do the footwork for you guys.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you sell your melty clock yes, it not "stealing" but you are violating copyright, that's how it works

    The "model in question" is a bit of a prototype, I thought is was clear we are talking about where these models are going.... Maybe you'd get it if you came down of your high horse

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Dali doesn't own the concept of a melting clock. If I include a melting clock in my own work, as long as it's not his melting clock with all the other elements of his painting, it's fair use.

    GPT hasn't been a prototype since before 2018, and the copyright restrictions are only getting tighter every time it's updated so idk what you're on about.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Ok but training an ai is not equivalent to watching a movie. It's more like putting a game on one of those 300 games in one DS cartridges back in the day.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    The problem with that being?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Obviously, it's illegal to sell a product that's using copyrighted material you don't have the copyright to. This AI is not open source, it's a for profit system.

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

    It doesn't, though. You could have easily checked yourself, but I guess I'll do your research for you.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It does though. You could have easily checked for yourself, but I guess I'll do your research for you.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html

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

    That article doesn't even claim it's distributing copyrighted material.

    If that qualifies as distributing stolen copyrighted material, then this is stealing and distributing the "you shall not pass" LoTR scene. Which, again, ChatGPT won't even do

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sorry, I know reading the whole article is hard:

    The complaint cites several examples when a chatbot provided users with near-verbatim excerpts from Times articles that would otherwise require a paid subscription to view.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah lmao after like 20 paragraphs of nothing, it wasn't hard to believe you didn't know what you were talking about. But I looked at the complaint itself out of curiosity, and it's flimsy and misleading.

    The first issue is 100% of the allegedly paywalled text from all 4 articles mentioned in the complaint can be read by non-paying customers for free outside of the paywall. You can't read the whole article, but you can get far enough to read all 4 quotes mentioned in the complaint yourself. The links to each article are in the complaint if you don't believe me. They have nothing to show they bypassed a paywall or that it was trained on unlicensed content.

    The second issue is the third exhibit claims it will bypass paywalls when asked. This is demonstrably false because for one, the article they asked it for isn't paywalled, and for two, using their exact prompts word for word doesn't work if you try it yourself.

    Two of the four exhibits don't even have screenshots, so there's no evidence it happened in the first place, but more importantly they don't (and apparently won't when asked) disclose what lengths they had to go to in order to get that output. For all we know they gave it 90% of the words and told it to fill in the gaps.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    That's really not how it works though, it's a web crawler they're not going to download the whole internet

    And a reason they don't is it would actually potentially be copywrite infringement in some cases where as what they do legally isn't (no matter how much people wish the law was set based on their emotions)

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