The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies. The Times is the first major American media organization to sue the companies, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular A.I. platforms, over copyright issues associated with its written works. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that millions of articles published by The Times were used to train automated chatbots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information.
21 sats \ 0 replies \ @GlobalThreat 12 Jan
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @PlebeiusG 12 Jan
I think that copyright material SHOULD be used as training data. Fight me.
Try to regulate it... just try! The result is worse AI.. and for what?!
Also, no government regulation can stop me from fine-tuning an open-source model in my garage on the DRM-free books and movies and music and artwork that I already own! Then I can release the weights on BitTorrent. Yeah, try to do something about that. You can't. Maybe you stop me, but you won't stop the thousands of people around the world doing the same thing.
It's just like bitcoin. You can try to fight it, but you'll lose. The faster we embrace this the better. Copyright laws may just be incompatible with AI technology. I'm honestly tired of people bringing this up. Just ignore the litigious dinosaurs, keep your head down, keep studying bitcoin, keep studying AI and use all the technology and knowledge at your fingertips to improve your life and build things.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 12 Jan
The garbage from NYT will be excluded from LLMs? Great!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car OP 12 Jan
đź’« This is such an impressive set of research Ben put together for this post.
He really hits home on Rufo’s case (Rufo was effective versus Harvard because he used their own rules about plagiarism against them) being brought to light the perceptions of institutional authority in the digital age, where the value of information and social capital is seen differently compared to the traditional, analog world.
The lawsuit filed by nyt vs openai & microsoft over copyright infringement puts at the forefront that this impedes and competes with nyt journalism and risking the paper’s ability to provide reliable information…go figure.
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