Comment by ianks
14 days ago
Are we going to find out that Meta pirated libgen again, with zero recognition to the authors?
“Open-sourcing it” doesn’t magically absolve you of the irreparable damages you’ve caused society. You stole their life’s work so your company could profit off of rage-slop.
The problem is, how do you value one book? £10? Or are we saying £10 every time someone uses the AI?
Should Taylor swift be liable to pay commission for every piece of music she listened to while training? They will have influenced her work in some way.
I’d rather go the other way and say that the companies have to freely release their data sets, if the data is derived from other people’s work. It would put everyone on a level playing field.