Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by febin 499 days ago
Is this "deep research" tool exploiting open knowledge creators, using their work without compensation?
7 comments

How is using public information "exploitation"? A human researcher with Google would do the same.
So its fine for OpenAI to effectively sell your CC BY-NC content to others?
Are you exploiting open knowledge creators, using their work without compensation?
The creators are aware that a human is using this, can we say the same for AI, does it have their consent?
Then consent is granted by transitive property because these AI are yielded by humans.
Yea but guy paying closedai to get "insights" that basically copy-pasted content from my blog is definitely violating my blogs copyright, and in the end no coin comes to me either. What about that?
Could you provide an example where OpenAI outputting verbatim quotes actually constitutes the copyright violation? Because mechanically retrieving relevant quotes seems analogous to grep/search - the copyright status would depend on how downstream users transform and use that content. Like how quoting your blog in a technical analysis or critique is fair use, but wholesale republishing isn't. This suggests the violation occurs at usage time, not retrieval time.
You exploited my eyes by making me read this comment. Wheres my compensation.
I see many are offended, but I am genuinely asking a question.

I want to understand does this mean it's ethical for anyone to create a research AI tool that will go through arXiv and related GitHub repo and use it to solve problems, implement ideas like cursor.

It is also an agent, so it is using you without compensation for your work.
Of course. It's a child's play for SamA et al.
would it be open knowledge if it required payment to access ?