OpenAI could be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of infringing content.
  • gcheliotis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    178·
    11 months ago

    That machine is a commercial product. Quite unlike a human being, in essence, purpose and function. So I do not think the comparison is valid here unless it were perhaps a sentient artificial being, free to act of its own accord. But that is not what we’re talking about here. We must not be carried away by our imaginations, these language models are (often proprietary and for profit) products.

    • Falmarri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      11 months ago

      I don’t see how that’s relevant. A company can pay someone to read copyrighted work, learn from it, and then perform a task for the benefit of the company related to the learning.

      • krische@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        11 months ago

        But how did that person acquire the copyrighted work? Was the copyrighted material paid for?

        That’s the crux of the issue, Open AI isn’t paying for the copyrighted work they are “reading”, are they?

        • Falmarri@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          What does paying for anything have to do with what we’re talking about here. They’re ingesting freely available content, that anyone with a web browser could read