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OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Let It Freely Use Copyrighted Material for AI Training
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Nice to see the tech oligarchy is keeping up its policy of being utter scum.
For tech oligarchy people are animals.
As a capitalism enjoyer, I couldn't agree more. People should be compensated for their work, period. Otherwise, there's no incentive at all to even do anything.
They must have known yes Sam Altman isn't new to controversies and anti-privacy behaviors
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>>overly burdensome state laws
It's not a state law, it's a international treaty, that us was apart of
en.m.wikipedia.org
It's not a state law, it's a international treaty, that us was apart of
Berne Convention - Wikipedia
So.... how many people here who are against OpenAI taking and using copyrighted material without compensating the creators are okay with taking and using copyrighted material themselves without compensating the creators? Asking for friend.
“…cannot freely innovate while having to comply with "overly burdensome state laws”
Said every company ever about laws, statutes and regulations meant to keep them in check.
Said every company ever about laws, statutes and regulations meant to keep them in check.
So Apple must have known a few years ago that OpenAI would petition the government to exempt it from copyright law?They must have known yes Sam Altman isn't new to controversies and anti-privacy behaviors
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Google following suit ...
They’ve just been stealing data the whole time I7…This is not recent news that Apple was somehow unaware of. (though a few companies have gotten them to pay a little bit for their data.)
“Training” = stealing.
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The sheer HUBRIS of this company and others like it blows my mind! If you want to use copywritten material, PAY FOR IT, you greedy mothers. Why is this so difficult to understand? That's what copyright is THERE for in the first place - so that bastards like you can't swoop in to steal and profit from the efforts of others.
The nerve of this just completely kills me. "We'd like permission to steal from the people we plan to make obsolete, thanks!" And the sad thing is, I'm sure they'll get that permission. What is the POINT of copyright, trademark, etc., if it's just going to be ignored?! Nauseating.
The nerve of this just completely kills me. "We'd like permission to steal from the people we plan to make obsolete, thanks!" And the sad thing is, I'm sure they'll get that permission. What is the POINT of copyright, trademark, etc., if it's just going to be ignored?! Nauseating.
You must be kidding - let them pay for it like everyone else. It is like pirating all the music you want because it makes you mellow when listening to it.
Would that mean we can steal their software?
Would that mean we can steal their software?
I'm going to pop into my nearest bookshop, photograph every page of every book, and walk out claiming it's "fair use". Why on Earth should the authors of those books get paid for their work? I mean, lazy sods, right?
No, not at all.
Hey, Altman! If you want to make your crappy LLM pattern-matching algorithm thing better, then pay for the data you train it on!
It's not "Artificial Intelligence" until it can be intelligent on its own. Feeding it stolen training data is not intelligence; it's stealing. If you steal, you get to go to court and pay the fines.
Yet another reason why I have never and will never use one of those "AI" tools. Just like Tesla, if you stop buying and using them, they will go out of business.
No, not at all.
Hey, Altman! If you want to make your crappy LLM pattern-matching algorithm thing better, then pay for the data you train it on!
It's not "Artificial Intelligence" until it can be intelligent on its own. Feeding it stolen training data is not intelligence; it's stealing. If you steal, you get to go to court and pay the fines.
Yet another reason why I have never and will never use one of those "AI" tools. Just like Tesla, if you stop buying and using them, they will go out of business.
Maybe someone could explain this to Trump as follows: "You know how you make a lot of money from licencing your name for people to put on their buildings? Well, this is the equivalent of those people wanting to put your name on their building without paying you." He might actually get the implications of this proposal.
Then get ready for society to take a hit. Why should film studios bankroll films, when anyone can just use them for their own purposes. Same for books, video games & music. The next would be to abandon the patent system - then, why would any company pay billions to develop new drugs (or manufacturer existing drugs) when a generics company can simply sell knock-offs?
Then get ready for society to take a hit. Why should film studios bankroll films, when anyone can just use them for their own purposes. Same for books, video games & music. The next would be to abandon the patent system - then, why would any company pay billions to develop new drugs (or manufacturer existing drugs) when a generics company can simply sell knock-offs?
It'll become a copy of a copy of a copy, and eventually become nonsense.
There were lots of red flags, the biggest one that I know of is the Worldcoin crypto project which scanned people iris biometric data and stored it without consent. The thing we know from Apple is their strong stance on privacy so it was a shock to see them partnering with OpenAI while there were other AI companies that offer similar products to ChatGPT and don't have CEOs with a history of violating people's privacy. It's not only Apple I mean the current US government pretty much endorsed OpenAI by inviting their CEO to the White House for the new AI infrastructure project.
They did
Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
Did they think they could get away with it?
