In a way this thread is heart-warming. There are so many different people here - liberals, socialists, anarchists, communists, progressives, … - and yet they can all agree on 1 fundamental ethical principle: The absolute sanctity of intellectual property.
Depending on how important these large language models end up being to society, I’d rather everyone be able to freely use copyrighted works to train them, rather than reserve their use solely for the corporations rich enough to pay for the licensing or lucky enough to already have the rights to a trove of source material
OpenAI losing this battle is how we ensure that the only people that can legally train these things are the Microsofts, Googles, and the Adobes of the world so, bizarrely, as much as I think OpenAI has turned into greedy corpo scum, I feel compelled to side with them here
In a way this thread is heart-warming. There are so many different people here - liberals, socialists, anarchists, communists, progressives, … - and yet they can all agree on 1 fundamental ethical principle: The absolute sanctity of intellectual property.
More of “you don’t get to profit off violating it and act like you’re better than a dude selling burned DVDs”
Depending on how important these large language models end up being to society, I’d rather everyone be able to freely use copyrighted works to train them, rather than reserve their use solely for the corporations rich enough to pay for the licensing or lucky enough to already have the rights to a trove of source material
OpenAI losing this battle is how we ensure that the only people that can legally train these things are the Microsofts, Googles, and the Adobes of the world so, bizarrely, as much as I think OpenAI has turned into greedy corpo scum, I feel compelled to side with them here