Copyright activists are on a mission to wipe a popular generative AI training set from the internet. Success could alter the industry—and who controls it.

Increasingly, the authors of works being used to train large language models are complaining (and rightfully so) that they never gave permission for such a use-case. If I were an LLM company, I’d be seriously looking for a Plan B right now, whether that’s engaging publishing companies to come up with new licensing options, paying 1,000,000 grad students to write 1,000,000 lines of prose, or something else entirely.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    Non issue political BS. AI has no more than the capabilities of a human that half ass read the cliffnotes on any book. It is a similar awareness as anyone that knows about the work and the basic writing style. Complaining about this is as stupid as thought policing people for being aware of a book and its content without paying for it. Fucking joke media is terrible for this yellow news. I’m actually playing with open source offline AI models. I’ve tried training one on a book. The results are useless.

    The main motivation in all of the garbage hype media is a propaganda campaign to limit AI to the proprietary privacy invasive garbage. The open source models are an existential threat. There is no going back now. This is like the early days of the proprietary internet framework. Everyone involved in that went out of business when the open source options became available. AI LLMs are as big of a change as the entire internet. For example, you want a search engine that works? A llama2 70B is far better at responding with what you are actually looking for than any current search engine. This makes stalkerware big tech obsolete.

    • Peanut@sopuli.xyz
      51·
      9 months ago

      Keep saying the same about diffusion models as well. I guess we just want adobe and other wealthy companies to be the only ones with access to proprietary datasets large enough to make futuristic art tools.

      Pay subscriptions to your overlords or suffer.

    • doinks@discuss.online
      1·
      9 months ago

      So many people urging policymakers to kneecap AI development and cede all that progress to China

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        1·
        9 months ago

        The Berne Convention contains an enumerated list of things that it recognizes as things that can be restricted by IP law. Training AIs is not among them.