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by SunlitCat 534 days ago
To be honest, that was my first thought on reading that headline as well. Given that especially those large companies (but who knows how smaller ones got their training data) got a huge amount of backlash for their unprecedented collection of data all over the web and not just there but everywhere else, it's kinda ironic to talk about intellectual property.

If you use one of those AI model as a basis for your AI model the real danger could be that the owners of the originating data are going after you at some point as well.
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ToucanLoucan 534 days ago
Standard corporate hypocrisy. "Rules for thee, not for me."

If you actually expected anything to be open about OpenAI's products, please get in touch, I have an incredible business opportunity for you in the form of a bridge in New York.

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xdennis 533 days ago
They got backlash, but (if I'm not mistaken) it was ruled that it's okay to use copyrighted works in your model.

So if a model is copyrighted, you should still be able to use it if you generate a different one based on it. I.e. copyright laundry. I assume this would be similar to how fonts work. You can copyright a font file, but not the actual shapes. So if you re-encode the shapes with different points, that's legal.

But, I don't think a model can be copyrighted. Isn't it the case that something created mechanically can't be copyrighted? It has to be authored by a person.

I find it weird that so many hackers go out of their way to approve of the legal claims of Big AI before it's even settled, instead of undermining Big AI. Isn't the hacker ethos all about decentralization?

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