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"Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" (fosstodon.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Emy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also intention is pretty important when determining the guilt of many crimes. OpenAI doesnt intentionally spit back an author's exact words, their intention is to summarize and create unique content.

[–] pm_me_your_titties@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. The defense of "I didn't mean to do it." Always a classic.

[–] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I'm not sure why this conversation even needs to get this far. If I write an article about the history of Disney movies, and make it very clear the way I got all of those movies was to pirate them, this conversation is over pretty quick. OpenAI and most of the LLMs aren't doing anything different. The Times isn't Wikipedia, most of their stuff is behind a paywall with pretty clear terms of service and nothing entitles OpenAI to that content. OpenAI's argument is "well, we're pirating everything so it's okay." The output honestly seems irrelevant to me, they never should have had the content to begin with.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That's not the claim that they're making. They're arguing that OpenAI retains their work they made publicly available, which OpenAI claims is fair use because it's wholly transformative in the form of nodes, weights and biases, and that they don't store those articles in a database for reuse. But their other argument is that they created a system that threatens their business which is just ludicrous.