Comment by varun4
Is comprehending the plot of a movie theft if I can summarize it afterwards? What if I am able to hum a song pretty well after listening to it twenty times?
Now, what if I get the highest fidelity speakers and the highest fidelity microphone I can and play that song in my home. Then I use a deep learned denoiser to clean the signal and isolate the song’s true audio. Is this theft?
The answer does not matter. The genie is out of the bottle.
There’s no company like Napster to crucify anymore when high quality denoising models are already prior art and can be grown in a freaking Jupyter notebook.
Nobody cares about personal use. That's why we have concepts like fair use. It's when you turn around and try to make a business out of it.
You want to generate photos of copyrighted characters? Go for it. But OpenAI is making money off of that and that's the issue.
It seems like they made an effort to stop it, but their product is designed in such a way that doing so effectively is a sisyphean task.