Comment by lelanthran
5 hours ago
> You did not ask me for consent to use my words in your comment.
I am not representing your words as mine. I am not using your words to profit off. I am not making a gain by attributing your words to you.
> There has to be lines for cases where requiring attribution is required, and cases where it is not.
You are blurring the lines between "using a quote or likeness" and "giving credit to". I am skeptical that you don't know the difference between the two.
Regardless, any "perspective" that disregards the need to acquire consent is invalid. Even if you are going to ignore it, you have to acknowledge that you don't feel you need any consent from the people you are taking from.
This whole "silence is consent" attitude is baffling.
You made an incredibly strong statement that is much broader than what we are talking about. I am pointing out various cases where I think that broadness is incorrect, I am not equating the two.
I do not think that, if you read, say, https://steveklabnik.com/writing/when-should-i-use-string-vs... , and then later, a friend asks you "hey, should I use String or &str here?" that you need my consent to go "at the start, just use String" instead of "at the start, just use String, like Steve Klabnik says in https://steveklabnik.com/writing/when-should-i-use-string-vs... ". And if they say "hey that's a great idea, thank you" I don't think you're a bad person if you say "you're welcome" without "you should really be saying welcome to Steve Klabnik."
It is of course nice if you happen to do so, but I think framing it as a consent issue is the wrong way to think about it.
We recognize that this is different than simply publishing the exact contents of the blog post on your blog and calling it yours, because it is! To me, an LLM is a transformative derivative work, not an exact copy. Because my words are not in there, they are not being copied.
But again, I am not telling anyone else that they must agree with me. Simply stating my own relationship with my own creative output.
Just wanted to compliment you on your classy attitude and style, along with your solid points. It’s not easy to take that side of the debate. Cheers.
he doesn't have solid points, he conflates fair use with free use (?), ignores thousands of years of attribution history, and equates normal human to human learning with corporate LLMs training on original content (without consent). Great presentation, like you said, to cover the logical defects.
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> But again, I am not telling anyone else that they must agree with me. Simply stating my own relationship with my own creative output.
Look, I'm not saying that you are doing that, I'm pointing out that "Silence is consent" is not as strong an argument that many think it is.
> you don't feel you need any consent from the people you are taking from
In most cases, no, I (and it seems most others) don't feel the need for that, it is only you who seems to have an ideological hangup over this.
> you don't feel you need any consent from the people you are taking from.
What has been "taken", exactly?