• Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    Who’s watching marvel movies for free, legally? Who’s listening to RHCP’s entire discography for free, legally?

    Not the people training AI, they’ve been caught pirating their data multiple times.

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      6 days ago

      No one is. That’s exactly the point.

      Llms aren’t recreating copyrighted works. They’re drawing inspiration if you will. No copyright is being infringed.

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        5 days ago

        And how is an LLM trained to “draw inspiration” from an author without reading their books?

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          That’s exactly what it is. But it’s not replicating the book to sell that same book to generate profit the author of the book won’t get.

          It’s using the information in the book to generate its own data.

          Are you aware of how llms work?

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            5 days ago

            Ok, so if the LLM was trained by reading the books, then the LLM creators should have to buy a copy of the books, right?

            Because right now the creators are pirating the books to feed into the machine.