OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work

Counter counterpoint: I don't know, I think making an exception for tech companies probably gives a minor advantage to consumers at least.

You can still go to copilot and ask it for some pretty fucking off the wall python and bash, it'll save you a good 20 minutes of writing something and it'll already be documented and generally best practice.

Sure the tech companies are the one walking away with billions of dollars and it presumably hurts the content creators and copyright holders.

The problem is, feeding AI is not significantly different than feeding Google back in the day. You remember back when you could see cached versions of web pages. And hell their book scanning initiative to this day is super fucking useful.

If you look at how we teach and train artists. And then how those artists do their work. All digital art and most painting these days has reference art all over the place. AI is taking random noise and slowly making things look more like the reference art that's not wholly different than what people are doing.

We're training AI on every book that people can get their hands on, But that's how we train people too.

I say that training an AI is not that different than training people, and the entire content of all the copyright they look at in their lives doesn't get a chunk of the money when they write a book or paint something that looks like the style of Van Gogh. They're even allowed to generate content for private companies or for sale.

What is different, is that the AI is very good at this and has machine levels of retention and abilities. And companies are poised to get rich off of the computational work. So I'm actually perfectly down with AI's being trained on copyrighted materials as long as they can't recite it directly and in whole, But I feel the models that are created using these techniques should also be in the public domain.