Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says::Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products

  • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    96·
    7 months ago

    I don’t understand why people are defending AI companies sucking up all human knowledge by saying “well, yeah, copyrights are too long anyway”.

    Would you characterize projects like wikipedia or the internet archive as “sucking up all human knowledge”?

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      7 months ago

      In Wikipedia’s case, the text is (well, at least so far), written by actual humans. And no matter what you think about the ethics of Wikipedia editors, they are humans also. Human oversight is required for Wikipedia to function properly. If Wikipedia were to go to a model where some AI crawls the web for knowledge and writes articles based on that with limited human involvement, then it would be similar. But that’s not what they are doing.

      The Internet Archive is on a bit less steady legal ground (see the resent legal actions), but in its favor it is only storing information for archival and lending purposes, and not using that information to generate derivative works which it is then selling. (And it is the lending that is getting it into trouble right now, not the archiving).

    • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
      92·
      7 months ago

      Does Wikipedia ever have issues with copyright? If you don’t cite your sources or use a copyrighted image, it will get removed

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      Wikipedia is free to the public. OpenAI is more than welcome to use whatever they want if they become free to the public too.