• mimavox@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    21 days ago

    The more important question is: Why can a human absorb a ton of material in their learning without anyone crying about them “stealing”? Why shouldn’t the same go for AI? What’s the difference? I really don’t understand the common mindset here. Is it because a trained AI is used for profit?

    • brot@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      21 days ago

      There is a difference between me reading a book and learning from it and one of the biggest companies in the world pirating millions of books for their business. And it really gets bad when normal users are getting sued for tenthousands of dollars when they download a book or a MP3 and Meta is getting defended for doing the same thing, but in a much larger scale.

      Yes, we know that copyright is broken. But if it is broken, it has to be broken for all

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      21 days ago

      It is because a human artist is usually inspired and uses knowledge to create new art and AI is just a mediocre mimic. A human artist doesn’t accidentally put six fingers on people on a regular basis. If they put fewer fingers it is intentional.

      • mimavox@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        21 days ago

        That’s where I don’t agree. I don’t subscribe to the view that LLMs merely are “stochastic parrots”.

        • snooggums@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          21 days ago

          What do you think they are if not that?

          They don’t have emotions, they don’t have individual motivations, and don’t have intent.

          • mimavox@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            20 days ago

            No. But I do think they mimick the language capacity in the human brain.