Comment by amelius
9 months ago
You assume that "training" and human learning are similar things.
This is a bit like saying that taking a holiday picture of someone, and putting a surveillance camera on the street are the same thing.
I think many books actually prohibit the storage into an information retrieval system and AI can be considered a form of that.
> You assume that "training" and human learning are similar things.
No I don't. Because a human is choosing to enact the training regardless.
Just like if a human held a book up to a rock. It would be ridiculous that an author could ban a human from "training" a rock from a book. Its their book, and they can show it to a rock if they want!
If you buy a DVD and show it at work, then that's also ok, because it is your DVD and you can do with it whatever you want?
Turns out, nope, that's not ok.
> show it at work
No that distribution.
So my point stands. If you sell someone a book, you can't just put arbitrary restrictions on it. You cannot ban someone from training a model on it, nor ban you ban someone freak reading it upside down, or showing it to a rock.
You tried to claim that basically any restriction can be put on how something is used. Thats simply not true. Distribution is a specific carve out that has regulations on it.
But someone absolutely could train a model, as well as read it upside, or show it to a rock.