Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors
Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors
Court finds using online books to train artificial intelligence models without writers’ consent is ‘fair use’
Link without the paywall
All I'm hearing is that pirating is A-OK as long as you claim it's for model training
Sorry, but no. That's just the paper-thin excuse.
Pirating, like pretty much anything else that's sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.
I just put a thin blue line sticker on my case and full send that bitch.
The ruling explicitly does not allow pirating. It only lets you run ML training on legally acquired media.
They still haven't ruled on copyright infringement from pirating the media used to train, and they haven't ruled on copyright status of outputs (what it takes to be considered transformative).
This is judge Alsup, same guy who ruled in Oracle vs Google
American law has become a literal fucking joke (IAAL). I could’ve guessed the could get the outcome of this case without any facts: the huge corporation wins over authors. American law is no longer capable of holding major corporations to account, so we need a new legal system—one that’s actually functional.
Do you want a new constitution in the United States?
Could start with a guillotine for corporations and see how that goes.
If a pact between enslavers is a complete failure, why not just make another one? \s
But the actual process of an AI system distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text qualified as “fair use” under U.S. copyright law because it was “quintessentially transformative,” Alsup wrote.
Thats the actual argument and the judge is right here. LLMs are transformative in every sense of the word. The technology is even called "transformers".
Fallacious argument.
Something that can't generate wine glass full to the brim without a band-aid fix is far from "transformative." Even if it were:
More like obfuscated plagiarism.
Yeah, well, I could call my dick the Magnum Opus but that wouldn't make it two feet long.
I’d feel better about this if meta actually produced anything of value and I was able to also violate their copyright, but they’re just fucking leeches bro
The tinternet is getting like the Wild West again, circa early 200s and Napster and all that... This will pass, dunno when or how but it will pass, or perhaps we will start getting everything paywalled so LLMs can't just scrape data without some sort of payment. I don't actually know many people that like AI nowadays
That's probably your social bubble. My company is currently deepthroating everything that has AI in its name. I jokingly mentioned they should rename the company to Jira&AI, the joke was not well received.
Anyway, most people I know (including me) are somewhere in the middle - not quite fans in the traditional sense, but definitely not disliking AI.
It is, but as many are artists in some ways it is that they dislike the most
It's sort of like that... Except instead of a bunch of regular people sharing music, it's a bunch of capitalists stealing all art for profit. Ofc the major difference is that's it's legal for capital.
Wow you mean the state serves capital? I thought for sure it would once again fight for the rights of artists and their extremely profitable IP. \s \s \s
Of course it ended up that way. Who do you think lobbies for this kind of shit? Whos paying those who make the decisions?