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OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's like the classic "objection!" "On what grounds?" "It's devastating to my case!" Scenario.

Throughout history technology has repeatedly been developed that lets people do things faster than the people currently doing it. That's usually the point of technological progress. Of course the people left behind by that will complain, but that alone is no reason to limit the rest of us who would benefit from the advance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

who benefit from automating creative process

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anyone who enjoys creative things, since they now have access to a lot more of it a lot more easily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

is low quality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then it's not a threat to professional creatives, is it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

because average person always prioritize quality over low cost

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

How dare people have different priorities than you.