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It's two different things happening. One is redistribution, which isn't allowed and the other is fair use, which is allowed. You can't ban someone from writing a detailed synopsis of your book. That's all an llm is doing. It's no different than a human reading the material and then using that to write something similar.
That's very much up for debate still.
(I am personally still undecided)
The difference is that the llm has the ability to consume and remember all available information whereas a human would have difficulty remembering everything in detail. We still see humans unintentionally remaking things they've heard before. Comedians have unintentionally stolen jokes they've heard. Every songwriter has unintentionally "discovered" a catchy tune which is actually someone else's. We have fanfiction and parody. Most people's personalities are just an amalgamation of everyone and everything they've ever seen, not unlike an llm themselves.
I agree with you for the most part, but when the "person" in charge of the LLM is a big corporation, it just exaggerates many of the issues we have with current copyright law. All the current lawsuits going around signal to me that society as a whole is not so happy with how it's being used, regardless of how it fits in to current law.
AI is causing humanity to have to answer a lot of questions most people have been ignoring since the dawn of philosophy. Personally I find it rather concerning how blurry some lines are getting, and I've already had to reevaluate how I think about certain things, like what moral responsibilities we'll have when AIs truely start to become sentient. Is turning them off and deleting them a form of murder? Maybe...
OpenAI losing their case is how we ensure that the only people who can legally be in charge of an LLM are massive corporations with enough money to license sufficient source material for training, so I'm forced to begrudgingly take their side here
Agreed. I keep waffling on my feelings about it. It definitely doesn't feel like our laws properly handle the scale that LLMs can take advantage of 'fair use'. It also feels like yet another way to centralize and consolidate wealth, this time not money, but rather art and literary wealth in the hands of a few.
I already see artists that used to get commissions now replaced by endless AI pictures generated via a Lora specifically aping their style. If it was a human copying you, they'd still be limited by the amount they could produce. But an AI can spit out millions of images all in the style you perfected. Which feels wrong.