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Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos
(arstechnica.com)
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I'm arguing that AI and a human are doing different things when they 'learn'. A human learns. At the end of the day AI isn't doing anything near human intelligenc and therefore isn't critically thinking and applying that information to create new ideas, instead directly copying it based on what it thinks is most likely to come next.
Therefore a human is actually creating new material whereas AI can only rehash old material. It's the same problem of training AI on AI generated content. It makes any faults worse and worse over time because nothing 'new' is created.
At least with current AI tech
Well, that is a philosophical or religious argument. It's somewhat reminiscent of the claim that evolution can't add information. That can't be the basis for law.
In any case, it doesn't matter to copyright law as is, that you see it that way. The AI is the equivalent to that book on how to write bestsellers in my earlier reply. People extract information from copyrighted works to create new works, without needing permission. A closer example are programmers, who look into copyrighted references while they create.
Except that it's objectively different.
A closer example would be a programmer copying somebody else's code line for line but switching the order of some things around and calling it their own creation.
AI cannot think nor add to work. It cannot extract information in order to answer a question. It is spitting out an exact copy of what was ingested because that is the scenario the system decided was "correct".
If AI could parse information and actually create new intellectual property like a human, I'd find it reasonable, but as it stands it's just spitting out previous work.
Can we get back to this? I am confused why you believe that AIs like ChatGPT spit out "exact copies". That they spit out memorized training data is unusual in normal operation. Is there some misunderstanding here?
I don't think we're really talking to each other, but more past each other so I took a break.
To answer the question, it was an analogy and the ransomware part was to show the non-intelligence and creationary lack of AI more than be applied to the programming analogy. Sorry if that was confusing.
It was an ars technica (iirc) article I read in which the author made a working ransomware with GPT-4 by having it initially create a program to encrypt a file, then had it encrypt directories instead, then added flags and debugged it all of which he claims can be done by pretty much anyone malicious with access. Nowhere along the way did chat-gpt realize what it was doing though. A human would have.
Also ime at least I got completely copy and pasted paragphs from gpt 3.5 a few times dunno how much 4 has improved upon that.
I think my disagreement with you about AI copyright infringement is that you think that AI can create new things whereas I don't think that. I think the way I do because it can only ever rehash its training data. Our current AI systems can't actually create new thoughts. For example, with your 'how to write a book' author analogy, those people haven't just read people's advice and are now putting it on paper. Those people have also read tons and tons of novels. Taken classes on English and created and defended original ideas as part of that. If you trained an AI on English classes and novels it would have no idea how to write a "how to write a novel" type book while a person would. You have to have it copy something in order for it to perform, it's just the way that it works.
Furthermore it really wouldn't take a huge change to copyright law, just clear differences between the rules that apply to sentient vs non-sentient sources.
Well, that's simply not true.
You can say that without explaining but you just look like an idiot.
It's the same reason gpt4 will write you working ransomware without ever noticing that it's writing ranosomware. The AI doesn't understand what's going on. It just does what it does because of a virtual cookie based on a calculated score.
Ok, where did GPT-4 copy the ransomware code? You can't reshuffle lines of code much before the program breaks. Should be easy to find.