[belorn]

An interesting initiative from FSF, through I suspect the answer the most of the question will be answered when someone attempts a similar projects in a more traditional copyright-restrictive area.

As an example I would like to see is a Cosinger, where the AI is trained using songs on youtube and streaming services. With the final product, a user start to sing and the algorithm attempt to sing along and give the singer suggestions for how the song should continue. I could see how a lot of musicians would be willing to pay good money for such program, and removing obligations to pay any money for the training set would make it much more feasible to create.

There are already AI's that create music (through unlikely from proprietary training sets). A Cosinger shouldn't be too far from that.

[antocv]

A Cosinger would be illegal unethical, profit killing, anti democracy and ultimately anti our very own freedom to own intellectual property. /s

The same difference as allowing Google to prosper while beating down ThePirateBay, another search engine.

[belorn]

I predict it is very likely we will see a court case where a smaller actor will take public available information as training data and get sued for copyright information. It will be interesting to see if, just like in the pirate bay case, the courts will be creative. In the TPB case, the accused was found guilty of an Swedish anti-biker gang law that was written with the intention to shut down biker bars.

When copilot came out, one thing it reminded me of was the ethical considerations of face generators in animation. The output naturally has some similarities with the training data, and it is trivial to use a limited set of actors in order to create faces with canny similarities of the actors. A question that people asked (here on HN if I recall) was if you needed permission from those actors to use in the training set, or if this would allow anyone to "steal" the face of public faces and create semi-look alike that can then be used in anything from porn to advertisement.

The law is undoubtedly going to catch up.