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submitted 8 months ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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[-] noorbeast@lemmy.zip 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I will repeat what I have proffered before:

If OpenAI stated that it is impossible to train leading AI models without using copyrighted material, then, unpopular as it may be, the preemptive pragmatic solution should be pretty obvious, enter into commercial arrangements for access to said copyrighted material.

Claiming a failure to do so in circumstances where the subsequent commercial product directly competes in a market seems disingenuous at best, given what I assume is the purpose of copyrighted material, that being to set the terms under which public facing material can be used. Particularly if regurgitation of copyrighted material seems to exist in products inadequately developed to prevent such a simple and foreseeable situation.

Yes I am aware of the USA concept of fair use, but the test of that should be manifestly reciprocal, for example would Meta allow what it did to MySpace, hack and allow easy user transfer, or Google with scraping Youtube.

To me it seems Big Tech wants its cake and to eat it, where investor $$$ are used to corrupt open markets and undermine both fundamental democratic State social institutions, manipulate legal processes, and undermine basic consumer rights.

[-] TheFreezinSteven@beehaw.org 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

With your logic all artists will have to pay copyright fees just to learn how to draw. All musicians will have to pay copyright fees just to learn their instrument.

I guess I should clarify by saying I'm a professional musician.

[-] chahk@beehaw.org 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Do musicians not buy the music that they want to listen to? Should they be allowed to torrent any MP3 they want just because they say it's for their instrument learning?

I mean I'd be all for it, but that's not what these very same corporations (including Microsoft when it comes to software) wanted back during Napster times. Now they want a separate set of rules just for themselves. No! They get to follow the same laws they force down our throats.

[-] TheFreezinSteven@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Everything you said was completely irrelevant to what I mentioned and just plain ignorant.

Since when do you buy all the music you have ever listened to?

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