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US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired

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451 points croes | 1 comments | 12 May 25 09:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mattxxx ◴[12 May 25 13:58 UTC] No.43962976[source]▶
Well, firing someone for this is super weird. It seems like an attempt to censor an interpretation of the law that:

1. Criticizes a highly useful technology 2. Matches a potentially-outdated, strict interpretation of copyright law

My opinion: I think using copyrighted data to train models for sure seems classically illegal. Despite that, Humans can read a book, get inspiration, and write a new book and not be litigated against. When I look at the litany of derivative fantasy novels, it's obvious they're not all fully independent works.

Since AI is and will continue to be so useful and transformative, I think we just need to acknowledge that our laws did not accomodate this use-case, then we should change them.

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palmotea[dead post] ◴[12 May 25 14:14 UTC] No.43963168[source]▶
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jobigoud ◴[12 May 25 14:34 UTC] No.43963464[source]▶
We are talking about the rights of the humans training the models and the humans using the models to create new things.

Copyright only comes into play on publication. It's only concerned about publication of the models and publication of works. The machine itself doesn't have agency to publish anything at this point.

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1. spacemadness ◴[12 May 25 15:28 UTC] No.43964131[source]▶
Sounds like we’re talking about the right of AI company founders and people on HN to acquire wealth from creative works due to some weak argument concerning similarity to the human mind and creation of art. Since we’ve now veered into armchair philosophy territory, I think one could argue that the way human memory works and creates, both physically and mentally, from inspiration is vastly different from how AI works. So saying they’re the same and that’s it is both lazy and takes interesting questions off the table to squash debate.