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OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Let It Freely Use Copyrighted Material for AI Training
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OpenAI business model: we would like to steal all data and sell it
Investors: Take my money!!!!
Trump (probably): Hollywood is full of woke liberals, and the publishing industries writes bad things about me, so feel free! I am hereby cancelling all copyright in the US. Now, where's my sharpie...
Investors: Take my money!!!!
Trump (probably): Hollywood is full of woke liberals, and the publishing industries writes bad things about me, so feel free! I am hereby cancelling all copyright in the US. Now, where's my sharpie...
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Yeah. Do we need the "freely floating innovation" liek for every price? If it could not stole knowledge it woudl be dumb as smart monkey. If they would be allowed they have to pay hefty fees same as have been collected for playing music in pubs or as copy shops has to pay from each page copied. There is just question how to distribute such fees.
The irony of calling copyright infringement innovation.
I would also like to freely use copyrighted material in all my work. How do I apply?
Why should they be the exception? Just legislate copyright laws out of existence and let’s all be in equal footing.
Yes, and followed by an insistence upon copyright protection for the output resulting from the aforementioned infringement.
Copyright owners should be compensated for their work. OpenAI want to get rich by stealing other peoples hard work. It’s not right.
"please mr president, allow us to steal legally. we gave you money."
All this does is confirm that AI is not intelligent, it's basically a big copy machine that mixes up information it has access to and spits out something that's written to be readable by a person. No guarantee that it will actually be a sensible answer, just that it will be somewhat sensible to read. Really, if they want to use copyrighted information then they should license it like any other media company, or use freely available stuff, or write code that actually is intelligent instead of a huge database search.
Finally someone said it.. They don't give a damn and will suck up all the copyrighted material anyway.. They already have knockoffs of pretty much every product on earth.
Not to defend OpenAI, but everyone here who has gone through school/uni has used copyrighted material to train your brains.. Some books you bought, some you didn't.. I think balance needs to be struck for sure, but not everyone in the world is going to play by the rules unfortunately..
Isn't this the same company that was bitching about DeepSeek using their stuff?
We should ban all Chinese AI companies. Their results will be skewed with pro-Chinese political bias anyway.
Maybe it should use copyrighted material because the other stuff can be total garbage. We'll have AI raised on junk food and garbage.
You've looked at clouds from both sides.
The difference is we’ve paid for that copyright material, we haven’t simply stolen it. Even books in a library have been paid for by someone.
Large language models are not human brains. Stop using that comparison, like, forever.
If you did that writers and content creators will go out of business. They deserve to be rewarded for their work. Would you work for free? I know I wouldn’t.
If and this is a big if, the government suspends copyright laws for AI state same thing.
The problem is that you have Trump, so stupid proposals have a real chance.
Elon's Grok is probably training on Elon. One day, Elon will put Grok in human-like robots. Then instead of 50 children, he will pump-out millions.
Agreed. That’s why the industry has to resist all efforts by governments around the world to legalise the theft of copyright material.
This just came out. So you think Apple knew about this when planning and development started years ago. Let’s give Apple a break here.
