I know a lot of people want to interpret copyright law so that allowing a machine to learn concepts from a copyrighted work is copyright infringement, but I think what people will need to consider is that all that’s going to do is keep AI out of the hands of regular people and place it specifically in the hands of people and organizations who are wealthy and powerful enough to train it for their own use.
If this isn’t actually what you want, then what’s your game plan for placing copyright restrictions on AI training that will actually work? Have you considered how it’s likely to play out? Are you going to be able to stop Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the NSA from training an AI on whatever they want and using it to push propaganda on the public? As far as I can tell, all that copyright restrictions will accomplish to to concentrate the power of AI (which we’re only beginning to explore) in the hands of the sorts of people who are the least likely to want to do anything good with it.
I know I’m posting this in a hostile space, and I’m sure a lot of people here disagree with my opinion on how copyright should (and should not) apply to AI training, and that’s fine (the jury is literally still out on that). What I’m interested in is what your end game is. How do you expect things to actually work out if you get the laws that you want? I would personally argue that an outcome where Mark Zuckerberg gets AI and the rest of us don’t is the absolute worst possibility.
@IncognitoErgoSum Honestly? Arguing against AI to anyone I can find and supporting any legal action to regulate the industry. That includes my boss when he considers purchasing an AI service.
If find something that’s mine has been used to train an AI, I am willing to join a class action suit. The next work contract renegotiation I have will take into account the possibility of my writing being used to train, and it’ll be a no. I’m supporting the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes because those contracts will set important precedents on how AI can be used in creative industries at least, and will likely spread to other industries.
And I think if enough people don’t buy into the hype, and are skeptical, and public opinion remains against it, then it’s less likely AI will be used in industries that need a strict safety standard until we get a regulatory agency for it.
I get it, then.
It’s more about the utilitarian goal of convincing people of something that it’s convenient for you if the public believes it, in order to protect yourself and your immediate peers from automation, as opposed to actually seeking the truth and sticking going with established legal precedent.
Legally, your class action lawsuit doesn’t really have a leg to stand on, but you might manage to win anyway if you can depend on the ignorance of the judge and the jury about how AI actually works, and prejudice them against it. If you can get people to think of computer scientists and AI researches as “tech bros” instead of scientists with PHDs, you might be able to get them to dismiss what they say as “hype” and “fairy tales”.
I still say you’re wrong about how the AI actually works, man. You’re looking at it with rose-colored goggles, head filled with sci-fi catch phrases. But it’s just a math machine.
I’m looking at it with a computer science degree and experience with AI programming libraries.
And yes, it’s a machine that simulates neurons using math. We simulate physics with math all the way down to the quantum foam. I don’t know what your point is. Whether it’s simulated neurons or real neurons, it learns concepts, and concepts cannot be copyrighted.
I have a sneaking suspicion since you switched tactics from googling the wrong flowchart to accusing me of not caring about workers due to a contract dispute that’s completely unrelated to anything of the copyright stuff I’m talking about, I have a feeling you at least suspect that I know what I’m talking about.
Anyway, since you’re arguing based on personal convenience and not fact, I can’t really trust anything that you say anyway, because we’re on entirely different wavelengths. You’ve already pretty much indicated that even if I were to convince you I’m right, you’d still go on doing exactly what you’re doing, because you’re on a crusade to save a small group of your peers from automation, and damn the rest of us.
Best of luck to you.