Most argue training with copyrighted data is fair use.

AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content::The companies building generative AI tools like ChatGPT say updated copyright laws could interfere with their ability to train capable AI models. Here are comments from OpenAI, StabilityAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft and more.

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    1 year ago

    AI legally can’t create its own copywritable content. Indeed, it can not learn. It can only produce models that we tune on datasets. Those datasets being copywritten content. Im a little tired of the anthropomorphizing of ais. They are statistical models not children.

    No sir, I didn’t copy this book, I trained ten thousand ants to eat cereal but only after running an ink well and then a maze that I got them to move through in a way that deposits the ink where I need it to be in order to copy this book.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      The AI isn’t being accused of copyright infringement. Nothing is being anthropomorphized.

      Wether you write a copy of a book with a pen, or type it into a keyboard, or photograph every page, or scan it with a machine learning model is completely irrelevant. The question is - did you (the human using the pen/keyboard/camera/ai model) break the law?

      I’d argue no, but other people disagree. It’ll be interesting to see where the courts side on it. And perhaps more importantly, wether new legislation is written to change copyright law.

    • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      It can only produce models that we tune on datasets. Those datasets being copywritten content.

      That’s called learning. You learn by taking in information, then you use that information to produce something new.