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by concordDance 905 days ago
> AI still could produce exact or extremely similar results of stuff it learned on.

Can it do so more than a human can?

I think that's the key here. If an AI is no more precise than a human telling you about the news article they read today then ChatGPT learning process probably can't be morally called copying.
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octacat 905 days ago
So, if someone decompiles a program and compiles it again, it would look different. "It is not copying", we just did some data laundering.

Feeding someone else data into your system is usually a violation of copyright. Even if you have a very "smart" system, trying to transform and obfuscate the original data.

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Matticus_Rex 904 days ago
> Feeding someone else data into your system is usually a violation of copyright

In some circumstances, yes, but often it's not, especially if you're not continuing to store and use it (which OpenAI isn't).

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jalapenos 904 days ago
I'm regularly feeding other people's data into my "system" (brain) in order to produce my outputs.

So I'm a living breathing copyright violator. As a person I should be banned.

Fortunately, copyright is a bullshit fictitious right with no basis in natural law. So I don't lose much sleep over it.

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octacat 904 days ago
Computers are deterministic. Giving the same inputs training would produce the same model. The comparison with brain is incorrect. You could add noise on input data during the training - it would more of less reproduce the real learning. Still, it could produce less useable models as a result.

The court could ask to show the training dataset.

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