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Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishing corporations, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime created to manage its use of copyrighted material in training data would be too complex and costly to work in practice

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  • satanmat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    10 months ago

    I’m just trying to think about how refined AI would be if it could only use public domain data.

    ChatGPT channels Jane Austin and Shakespeare.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      That’s not really how it would work.

      If you want that outcome, it’s better to train on as massive a data set as possible initially (which does regress towards the mean but also manages to pick up remarkable capabilities and relationships around abstract concepts), and then use fine tuning to bias it back towards an exceptional result.

      If you only trained it on those works, it would suck at pretty much everything except specifically completing those specific works with those specific characters. It wouldn’t model what the concerns of a prince in general were, but instead model that a prince either wants to murder his mother (Macbeth) or fuck her (Oedipus).

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      That’s how it should be, but public domain has been crippled by Disney and co.