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AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

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Re: AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

#34
I dunno. People do this exact thing by hand (digest everything they've read and produce something indirectly derivative--what author has not been so-influenced?) and it's not a copyright violation. It's just as impossible to dig around in a model to find Hamlet as it is to do digging around a human brain. And if the result is an obvious copy, then you have a violation no matter how it was created.

As someone who thinks humanity would be better off without LLMs, I want the assertion to be true, but I don't think it is.

Re: AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

#36
post #34

I dunno. People do this exact thing by hand (digest everything they've read and produce something indirectly derivative--what author has not been so-influenced?) and it's not a copyright violation. It's just as impossible to dig around in a model to find Hamlet as it is to do digging around a human brain. And if the result is an obvious copy, then you have a violation no matter how it was created. As someone who thin…

The author acknowledges this by saying “at a bigger scale”, implying there are smaller scale methods such as what you have said.

Re: AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

#37
Yes, of course it is. If the model is built on all human information, then it is by definition a derivative work of all human information and as such violates IP.

Currently politicians don't understand this and listen to the criminals like Amodei, but it will change.

It took a while to deal with Napster etc., but the backlash will come.

Re: AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

#40
On one hand, there's nothing new under the sun. On the other, these llms are just copies of us and they owe the collective some due. The trajectory right now has money, power, control, policy and even free will going to a very small needle point of humanity. It's not aligned with humanity flourishing, it only makes sense if the goal is to replace the humans.
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