[altruios]

This is a silly perspective, inaccurate, and out of bounds framing.

Public libraries, in this instance, is curated data from all the internet, obtained through not legal means (I don't have a problem with this other than lack of attribution, being copy-left). Just to be clear.

But in answer to your incredibly leading and inaccurate framing... they are required (by their job title) to teach to those who who show up in the classroom, it's not their place to discriminate against anyone/thing (even those like itself (other robots)) that also show up in the classroom.

But you can't teach at a university using only knowledge learned from the library. you need a degree. You are free to teach at the park, where anyone can hear you. public in -> public out.

[petilon]

If a professor learns from multiple books, generalizes from them and then shares his knowledge he is providing a valuable service. Versus someone who makes a recording of the professor's lectures and resells them to undercut the professor--that guy is not providing a valuable service.

[tux3]

What kind of fresh hell does the sentence "undercut the professor" come from?

Teaching isn't a race to the bottom. You don't undercut teaching by giving more lessons, just like you don't slight the hospital by performing CPR.

[petilon]

We are not really talking about teaching here.

[tux3]

We sure wouldn't be, if we picked better metaphors.

[_aavaa_]

No, we’re talking about an intimate set of tensors, not a human being.

A tree falling and killing someone isn’t tried for manslaughter.

So I don’t care about a hypothetical teacher.

[lelanthran]

> If a professor learns from multiple books, generalizes from them and then shares his knowledge he is providing a valuable service. Versus someone who makes a recording of the professor's lectures and resells them to undercut the professor--that guy is not providing a valuable service.

I'm confused now; isn't the LLM that trains on that professor's lectures, videos and textbooks undercutting him?

Where were you going with this?

[idle_zealot]

What about a student attending lectures of other professors and generalizing what he learns from them, then going on to become a professor?

[petilon]

If the student is really good at generalizing we wouldn't even be having this debate because he would've just generalized from the same source materials the professor used.

[altruios]

What are you even trying to say: "undercut the professor"...

The further you try to constrain this topic into this illformed analogy the weirder it becomes. If we start off with a better analogy...