The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work - eviltoast

Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

  • kibiz0r@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    In a perfect world, yes, I think AIs can and should be trained on real world content, but if those AIs still don’t understand the nuances of attribution, paraphrasing, and plagiarism, then that’s still a problem that needs to be addressed.

    What a joke. Oh okay, if the LLMs output can annotate where the snippets came from, then it’s totally cool.

    The fuck are we doing? We’re really sleepwalking into a future where a few companies are able to slurp up the entire history of human creative thought, crunch some statistics about it with the help of severely underpaid Kenyans, and put a paywall around it, and that’s totally legal.

    Every time I see an “AI” (these are not fucking AI, and yet we’re fucking doomed already) apologist, I always think of Peter Gibbons explaining the “fractions of a penny” scheme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjCQ3T5yXo

    “It becomes ours”

    Are we really this dumb? Maybe we deserve the dystopia we’re building.

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      10 months ago

      I get it. Can seem alarming, and I won’t argue here about training on copyrighted works.

      a few companies are able to slurp up the entire history of human creative thought, crunch some statistics about it with the help of severely underpaid Kenyans, and put a paywall around it, and that’s totally legal.

      If a few companies can slurp up our entire public domain history and profitably paywall useful products of it, have there still been moral failings?

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      We’re really sleepwalking into a future where a few companies are able to slurp up the entire history of human creative thought, crunch some statistics about it with the help of severely underpaid Kenyans, and put a paywall around it, and that’s totally legal.

      That future already happened ten years ago when NYT lost its lawsuits against Google.