Comment by Legend2440
6 months ago
The flip side is: knowledge is not (and should not be!) copyrightable. Anyone can read your articles and use the knowledge it contains, without paying or crediting you. They may even rewrite that knowledge in their own words and publish it in a textbook.
AI should be allowed to read repair manuals and use them to fix cars. It should not be allowed to produce copies of the repair manuals.
Using the work of others with no credit given to them would at the very least be considered a dick move.
AI is committing absolute dick moves non-stop.
Some people claim that the entire trillion dollar Apple empire is based on using the work of Xerox PARC. Was that a dick move? Perhaps, but at this point it hardly matters.
An AI does not know what "fix" means, let alone be able to control anything that would physically fix the car. So, for an AI to fix a car means to give instructions on how to do that, in other words, reproduce pertinent parts of the repair manual. One, Is this a fair framing? Two, is this a distinction without a difference?
> The flip side is: knowledge is not (and should not be!) copyrightable.
Irrelevant. Books and media are not pure knowledge, and those are what is being discussed here, not knowledge.
> Anyone can read your articles and use the knowledge it contains, without paying or crediting you.
Completely irrelevant. AI are categorically different than humans. This is not a valid comparison to make.
This is also a dishonest comparison, because there's a difference between you voluntarily publishing an article for free on the internet (which doesn't even mean that you're giving consent to train on your content), and you offering a paid book online that you have to purchase.
> AI should be allowed to read repair manuals and use them to fix cars.
Yes, after the AI trainers have paid for the repair manuals at the rate that the publishers demand, in exactly the same way that you have to pay for those manuals before using them.
Of course, because AI can then leverage that knowledge at a scale orders of magnitude greater than a human, the cost should be orders of magnitude higher, too.