In its submission to the Australian governmentâs review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.
Just because you canât point to a specific part of your brain that contains the letter âpâ doesnât mean it isnât in there somewhere. If you didnât contain the letter âpâ, or Getty watermark, or Picassoâs work, you wouldnât be able to recognise them when you saw them or tried to replicate them. The act of recognising something that is familiar is basically the brain comparing what the eye sees with what is stored in the memory. The brain stores it differently to an exact copy on a hard drive, but it does, nevertheless, contain everything that it remembers.
I disagree that recognition implies you contain it. Itâs much closer to a description than the actual thing, and a description isnât the same as the thing. This is evidenced by you being able to look at a letter P in a font youâve never seen before and recognize it without issue. If it was just comparison, you couldnât do that.
