Comment by fennecfoxy
Comment by fennecfoxy 10 hours ago
I keep waiting for the day when people realise that IP law has been used and abused and thanks to Disney extended out for many, many lifetimes and all manner of dirty tricks/hacks to keep the late stage capitalism profit engine going.
I 100% agree that if an LLM can entirely reproduce a book then that is copyright infringement, overfitting and generally a bad model. I also believe that in this case, HP (and other popular media) is overrepresented in the training data because of many fan sites/literal uploads of the book to the Internet (which the model was trained on). I believe that any & all human writing should be allowed to be used to train a model that behaves in the correct way so long as that writing is publicly available (ie on the Internet).
If I watch a TV show that someone uploaded to Youtube, am I committing a crime? Or is the uploader for distribution?
I also find it hilarious how many artists got their start by pirating photoshop.
Laws can have been used and abused and still be important. I know it’s hard to believe but the independent artists who were already struggling need IP laws to survive.
Otherwise Disney and the like can just come in, make copies or derivatives, and profit without paying those artists a penny.
Which everyone usually agrees (or used to) is not a fair outcome.
But somehow giant corporations not named Disney taking the same work in the same extractive mode in order to create an art-job-destroying machine is totally fine because Disney bad?
Maybe most people making this argument are also all for UBI and wealth redistribution on a massive scale, but they don’t seem to mention it much when trashing IP laws.