Comment by JoshTriplett

12 hours ago

> If even WWII-era documents are still under copyright, building a model respecting that would be impossible.

"We can't do this legally, so we should be allowed to ignore the law."

If you can't build a model while respecting licenses, don't build a model.

I don't want copyright to exist, at any duration, and I certainly think it should be much shorter than it is. However, as long as it exists, AI should not get any exception to it; such an exception inherently privileges massive entities over small entities or individuals.

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realusername  12 hours ago

If you can't do something which looks reasonable within the laws, it means that the laws have to change.

I don't see how building such a model of historical documents would impact authors (which most of them are dead anyways).

  • JoshTriplett  12 hours ago

    > If you can't do something which looks reasonable within the laws, it means that the laws have to change.

    Then change the law. For everyone, consistently, not just massive AI companies. Until then, deal with it.

    > I don't see how building such a model of historical documents would impact the authors

    It impacts the authors of new documents, who do not get to copy those historical documents, while an AI competing with them gets to. If you want those historical documents to be freely available, make copyright stop applying to them. For everyone, not just massive AI companies.