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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not

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  • T [email protected]

    This is an easy case. Using published works to train AI without paying for the right to do so is piracy. The judge making this determination is an idiot.

    nulluser@lemmy.worldN This user is from outside of this forum
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    The judge making this determination is an idiot.

    The judge hasn't ruled on the piracy question yet. The only thing that the judge has ruled on is, if you legally own a copy of a book, then you can use it for a variety of purposes, including training an AI.

    "But they didn't own the books!"

    Right. That's the part that's still going to trial.

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    • S [email protected]

      “I torrented all this music and movies to train my local ai models”

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      I also train this guy's local AI models.

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      • pro@programming.devP [email protected]
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        brb, training a 1-layer neural net so i can ask it to play Pixar films

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        • P [email protected]

          FTA:

          Anthropic warned against “[t]he prospect of ruinous statutory damages—$150,000 times 5 million books”: that would mean $750 billion.

          So part of their argument is actually that they stole so much that it would be impossible for them/anyone to pay restitution, therefore we should just let them off the hook.

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          Hold my beer.

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            FTA:

            Anthropic warned against “[t]he prospect of ruinous statutory damages—$150,000 times 5 million books”: that would mean $750 billion.

            So part of their argument is actually that they stole so much that it would be impossible for them/anyone to pay restitution, therefore we should just let them off the hook.

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            Ahh cant wait for hedgefunds and the such to use this defense next.

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            • pro@programming.devP [email protected]
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              #43

              I am training my model on these 100,000 movies your honor.

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              • korronald@lemmy.worldK This user is from outside of this forum
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                People. ML AI's are not a human. It's machine. Why do you want to give it human rights?

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                  I am training my model on these 100,000 movies your honor.

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                  Trains model to change one pixel per frame with malicious intent

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                  • K [email protected]

                    It's pretty simple as I see it. You treat AI like a person. A person needs to go through legal channels to consume material, so piracy for AI training is as illegal as it would be for personal consumption. Consuming legally possessed copywritten material for "inspiration" or "study" is also fine for a person, so it is fine for AI training as well. Commercializing derivative works that infringes on copyright is illegal for a person, so it should be illegal for an AI as well. All produced materials, even those inspired by another piece of media, are permissible if not monetized, otherwise they need to be suitably transformative. That line can be hard to draw even when AI is not involved, but that is the legal standard for people, so it should be for AI as well. If I browse through Deviant Art and learn to draw similarly my favorite artists from their publically viewable works, and make a legally distinct cartoon mouse by hand in a style that is similar to someone else's and then I sell prints of that work, that is legal. The same should be the case for AI.

                    But! Scrutiny for AI should be much stricter given the inherent lack of true transformative creativity. And any AI that has used pirated materials should be penalized either by massive fines or by wiping their training and starting over with legally licensed or purchased or otherwise public domain materials only.

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                    But AI is not a person. It's very weird idea to treat it like a person.

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                    • korronald@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                      But AI is not a person. It's very weird idea to treat it like a person.

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                      #47

                      No it's a tool, created and used by people. You're not treating the tool like a person. Tools are obviously not subject to laws, can't break laws, etc.. Their usage is subject to laws. If you use a tool to intentionally, knowingly, or negligently do things that would be illegal for you to do without the tool, then that's still illegal. Same for accepting money to give others the privilege of doing those illegal things with your tool without any attempt at moderating said things that you know is happening. You can argue that maybe the law should be more strict with AI usage than with a human if you have a good legal justification for it, but there's really no way to justify being less strict.

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                      • S [email protected]

                        “I torrented all this music and movies to train my local ai models”

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                        That's legal just don't look at them or enjoy them.

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                          Bangs gabble gavel.

                          Gets sack with dollar sign

                          “Oh good, my laundry is done”

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                          • match@pawb.socialM [email protected]

                            brb, training a 1-layer neural net so i can ask it to play Pixar films

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                            Good luck fitting it in RAM lol.

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                              Fuck the AI nut suckers and fuck this judge.

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                                Yeah I have a bash one liner AI model that ingests your media and spits out a 99.9999999% accurate replica through the power of changing the filename.

                                cp

                                Out performs the latest and greatest AI models

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                                  So authors must declare legally "this book must not be used for AI training unless a license is agreed on" as a clause in the book purchase.

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                                  • korronald@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                                    People. ML AI's are not a human. It's machine. Why do you want to give it human rights?

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                                    Sounds like natural personhood for AI is coming

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                                      calm down everyone.
                                      its only legal for parasitic mega corps, the normal working people will be harassed to suicide same as before.

                                      its only a crime if the victims was rich or perpetrator was not rich.

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                                      • mlg@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                                        Yeah I have a bash one liner AI model that ingests your media and spits out a 99.9999999% accurate replica through the power of changing the filename.

                                        cp

                                        Out performs the latest and greatest AI models

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                                        mv will save you some disk space.

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                                        • D [email protected]

                                          Trains model to change one pixel per frame with malicious intent

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                                          From dark gray to slightly darker gray.

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