Comment by zaptrem
21 hours ago
Given these models could not have been trained in the first place if they had to license every line of random fan fiction on the internet, I think distillation also being fair game is a tradeoff everyone should be willing to take (unless they want to decelerate, but that's a different conversation).
Us models didnt pay for licenses too
We're still in the early days of the AI industry timeline(relative to traditional industries). Not everything has yet been litigated.
Taxes on AI subscriptions or AI capable hardware, to financially compensate IP holders for (potential) IP theft, could very well arrive in the near future, once the industry is mature.
If this shocks you and sounds preposterous, I'll remind you that in several EU countries, we still pay extra taxes on any and all storage mediums and on devices with built-in storage (tapes, CDs, DVDs, HDDs, SSDs, tablets, phones, etc) simply because they can be used to store pirated content, decisions based on laws from 50-100 years ago, and the money goes to the national unions and associations of music and arts IP holders. It's basically a lobby pushed and government legalized extortion racket that no voter agrees with or can change but has no choice but to conform either way.
So I guarantee you in the future, it will be the same for AI subscriptions and hardware capable of running LLMs locally. Every time you purchase a Claude or ChatGPT subscription, an Nvidia GPU, Intel/AMD SoC PC or an Apple/Qualcomm powered smartphone, you'll pay a government enforced tax to the likes of Sony, Axel Springer, etc. for licensing their IP, whether you want to or not. In the EU at least. US maybe not.
I think we are going to direction where AI corps will have stronger lobby compared to IP holders.
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That is incorrect. Anthropic paid $1.5 billion in compensation to copyright holders for use of their content in training data. OpenAI pays hundreds of millions per year across 150+ licensing deals for access to copyrighted data. Meta and Alphabet have similar arrangements.
Under the settlement, Anthropic was forced to delete the pirated data they were training on.
Chinese labs can still train on pirated data. I doubt the Chinese models operate under similar licensing agreements.
Anthropic paid $1.5 billion in compensation to copyright holders for use of their content in training data.
The payment was for illegally downloading copyrighted material, not training. Training was explicitly ruled to be fair use.
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they didn't pay yet, because court challenged settlement as inadequate.
> I doubt the Chinese models operate under similar licensing agreements.
US corps likely pay licenses when afraid to be sued, or have troubles getting that data, otherwise they just take data, which was demonstrated many times. The same apply to Chinese corps, alibaba totally can be sued in US.
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They settled with a subset of copyright holders. Guarantee they violated lots of others' rights in the process
They only paid when they got caught. And not to everyone.
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really!? nobody paid me anything for my comments on HN.
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Let’s not forget that Anthropic only paid that to settle a class action lawsuit.
Compensation is not license
They used two of my books and I'm still waiting for my cheque here.
That's like saying someone is a big proponent of community law and order, and they donated $1000 to the county sheriff when actually they got caught drunk speeding in a school zone.
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Because they got caught
there is much less intellectual property in China so it’s not ‘theft’ (as you can’t put property on information)
After the fact. They did the same thing Youtube, Uber and Airbnb did: Break the law, eventually get caught, cut some deal where they pay a pittance and keep doing the same thing but now with leverage on their side.