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OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Tech companies will create those tools no matter what. Then they will charge everyone through the nose for using them.

The question is whether:

  • ONLY tech companies capable of paying scraps during 70 years after the author's death are allowed to create those tools
  • EVERYONE is allowed to train their own tool, without having to raise a few billion in seed capital

In this case, OpenAI is acting as "the devil's advocate"... and it's working to fool people into supporting the opposite position.