this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2024
1121 points (97.4% liked)

Technology

60052 readers
3130 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
1121
Make illegally trained LLMs public domain as punishment (www.theregister.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
121 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So then why, if it were all open sourced, including the weights, would the AI be worthless? Surely having an identical but open source version, that would strip profitability from the original paid product.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It wouldn't be. It would still work. It just wouldn't be exclusively available to the group that created it-any competitive advantage is lost.

But all of this ignores the real issue - you're not really punishing the use of unauthorized data. Those who owned that data are still harmed by this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

It does discourages the use of unauthorised data. If stealing doesn't give you competitive advantage, it's not really worth the risk and cost of stealing it in the first place.