The history of the world is the history of plundering. Nothing new, just fancier.
AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
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Re: AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
#782Historical scandals are finally coming to light now that the AI issue has raised awareness: - Ernest Hemingway trained his own neurons on Tolstoy, Twain, and Turgenev without ever paying them royalties! - William Faulkner trained his neurons on Joyce and de Balzac - George Orwell trained his neurons on Swift, Dickens, and Jack London - Virginia Woolf trained her neurons on Proust and Chekhov Now that these historical…
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Re: AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
#783Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a great point. I think for coding, the wording of the MIT open source license makes it clear that copying and distributing the software is authorised on a small scale and it's very clear that the act of copying must involve a person. It provides distribution and modification rights to "any person obtaining a copy of the software" and explicitly requires attribution for any significant parts. Mass-ingesting th…
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