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World's smallest violin needed, again:
"OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits" —if found guilty of 'wilful" infringement OpenAI could be on the hook for up to $150,000 per work. (And circumstances don't look great for them—they appear to have destroyed lists of the copyrighted works they'd trained GPT on.)
@cstross I would be astounded if they have actually destroyed the lists of training material, or even the training data itself.
You need all that if you are going to retrain a new version of your LLM in a different manner, and the "field" is moving so fast it would be corporate malfeasance to destroy your source training data.
This seems like a very transparent lie to the court.
Even if OpenAI destroyed the list of copyrighted works they stole to train AI, the AI themselves reveal they contain the results of plagiarism
If you ask an AI to find the source of this quote & it finds it...
"A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls. Her hair forms a smoky wreath around her open and curious face. She's interested in me"
Reasonable inference is kind of cool
https://www.williambarabino.com/blog/2018/07/27/inferences/
@cstross Ooh! Can we go after the music generators next?!
Fuck Them! I hope they disappear into oblivion...
RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115623499457379506
Reminder: Stealing copyrighted materials to train AI LLMs without the permission of copyright holders is a new kind of organized crime — organized by a considerable number of ethics-free "Big Tech" corps.
P.S.: Release the unredacted, unmanipulated, not fraudulently Trump-absolving Epstein files!
@cstross an organization that operates on a foundation of theft is organized crime.
@cstross The only course available - if they have indeed destroyed lists of training material - is to assume all works, without exception, were on those lists.
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