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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (28 children)

This is not REALLY about copyright - this is an attack on free and open AI models, which would be IMPOSSIBLE if copyright was extended to cover the case of using the works for training.
It's not stealing. There is literally no resemblance between the training works and the model. IP rights have been continuously strengthened due to lobbying over the last century and are already absurdly strong, I don't understand why people on here want so much to strengthen them ever further.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sorry AIs are not humans. Also executives like Altman are literally being paid millions to steal creator's work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't say anything about AIs being humans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

They’re also not vegetables 😡

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