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OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Apparently, stealing other people's work to create product for money is now "fair use" as according to OpenAI because they are "innovating" (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?

"Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression—including blogposts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents—it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials," wrote OpenAI in the House of Lords submission.

OpenAI claimed that the authors in that lawsuit "misconceive[d] the scope of copyright, failing to take into account the limitations and exceptions (including fair use) that properly leave room for innovations like the large language models now at the forefront of artificial intelligence."

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[–] TheFreezinSteven@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

With your logic all artists will have to pay copyright fees just to learn how to draw. All musicians will have to pay copyright fees just to learn their instrument.

I guess I should clarify by saying I'm a professional musician.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Do musicians not buy the music that they want to listen to? Should they be allowed to torrent any MP3 they want just because they say it's for their instrument learning?

I mean I'd be all for it, but that's not what these very same corporations (including Microsoft when it comes to software) wanted back during Napster times. Now they want a separate set of rules just for themselves. No! They get to follow the same laws they force down our throats.

[–] TheFreezinSteven@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Everything you said was completely irrelevant to what I mentioned and just plain ignorant.

Since when do you buy all the music you have ever listened to?