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This guy is full of shit.
Let me rephrase his points:
Who the fuck gives Anthropic the right to use all that training data for their model?! And if other companies distill their models, THEY are to be protected by laws?! Cry me a fucking river.
Hasn't the output from LLM already been ruled ineligible for copyright protection?
No idea. The whole copyright topic is a clusterfuck when it comes to LLMs. The matter of the fact is: most AI companies steal data to train their models and they don't care about licenses or copyrights.
"The whole copyright topic is a clusterfuck", full stop.
Except for use in llm
Copyright should not exist
Are you for real?
Copyright exists so that corporations can extract profit from their "intellectual property" by restricting other people's free creative expression.
Do you know any artists trying to make a living?
Copyright started out in the USA at 14 years plus another optional 14 year extension. I am going by my memory here.
The purpose of the law was to balance public and private interests.
The public benefits from uninhibited copying. Private interests benefit from a monopoly on copying. The law at first recognized both of those interests as legitimate, which is why copyrights were relatively short at first.
Then the rich companies like Disney lobbied the govrnment to change all that.
Now copyright is something like lifetime of an author (who can be a corporation and does not even need to be a human) plus something like 150 years, plus/minus.
Basically the interests of the public were tossed out the window.
The public libraries were and still are the bullwark providing free access to copies, but the private interests hate the libraries too.
I don't want the artists to starve. Right now the biggest holders, abusers and beneficiaries of the heinously immoral (as it currently stands) copyright regime are the giant gorporations, not the starving artists.
Plus, now a new crop of giant corporations decided to ignore copyright that was recently serving primarily other giant corporations. I hate all of them, and all of IT. Fuck them all.
Copyright law needs a reform now.
So in summary, center the human author, and balance the public and the private iterests.
And while we wait, harrrr, harrr, harrr, sail the high seas.
P.S. Fashion is one form of creative output not covered by any monopoly protection. The fashion industry is doing fine.
In most countries, the output of a single prompt will not be copyrightable. However, once someone starts arranging the output into something more, then copyright can be applied.
Overall, it depends on the country, but in some they are asking their legislators for clarification. Many are trying to apply pre-existing copyright laws to LLMs.
The U.S. Copyright Office wrote up a report about this and included a list of how other countries are handling it.
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
Yes, as the other commenter said, in most jurisdictions (i think China is the only exception?), generative AI outputs (this covers more than LLMs, like diffusers and other modern image generators) are not eligible for copyright. However, while a human made arrangement of the outputs gets copyright protection, in the US at least, it is a very narrow scope of protection, literally only a direct copy/paste of large swaths, and doesn't extend to the individual AI generated components.
And don't even get started on how he says that China is a represive regime (which it is) while leaving the US as it it wasn't. Like they won't "CCP" the fuck out of the population using Anthropic's models.
There’s nothing else they could say. They have to justify the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been poured into this thing. Anything less than world domination and complete control will make it impossible to ever make up for all that money.
AI is great (sometimes), but the centralized command-and-control cloud model is not. It needs to die. So we should all use the opensource models and ditch the hyperscalers.
I agree. I'm an open source maxi and go out of my way to only use open source models.
And I don't mean open weight models, I mean fully open source models where you also have access to the training data and checkpoints and stuff like that. In my opinion, go open source or GTFO.
Wow
My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.
What is that shit?
Truly this is an insane take coming from an American company. Really batshit crazy.
Imagine the dread for Europeans to see these powerful countries obsessed at weaponizing their AI. Open source model are not even part of that problem. Open source is usually the opposite end of the secrecy of weapon design and manufacturing.
But no evil CCP bad can't do their open weights AI but OpenAI can equip the military without any oversight.
I hope the American imperium will crumble and fall. They created so much fucking suffering for the rest of the world.
I believe this is a clear case of projection...
Because of course, the Country that has an economic bubble, and in that bubble, there's "just a few" that are very Pro AI-Police and AI-Military, and one of those being the one where the CEO wished he could have a drone with "fent--yl laced urine" to rain on anyone who "messes with" them... is kinda funny, don't you think?
I could go on, but I assume this isn't news to anyone, specially if they follow money trails.
How many terrorist attacks has China staged against civilians? I'm thinking of Operation Mongoose
I only scrolled over it but every time I stopped to read another sentence, it got worse.
From what I understood open-weights models are too efficient, too cheap, don’t consume enough energy, and don’t require to construct as many super data centers. That’s why they are… dangerous?
The schizophrenia of the AI industry is laid bare in this fever dream of a statement. My god, we really cannot afford to have tech CEOs running things as a society. All they seem to be interested in is killing us.
I think the two principle arguements he's making are open weights allow for misaligned models and these models are using distillation to more efficiently train.
I don't really care about the distillation point - it seems it's just hoovering up the internet with extra steps. It's really up to Anthropic to deal with by enforcing their ToS. Sauce for the goose etc...
I can see the argument about alignment but it's not a new problem. In the FLOSS world we generally don't put restrictions on use on the code we release even if it might get used for bad stuff. It certainly wouldn't hurt for the authorities to test open models to find out where the guardrails are Burt ultimately rather than banning the tech you need to enforce the law against the people that use the tech to do bad stuff.
Fuck "alignment." If I want to make an AI dungeon master, it's almost impossible to do so (at least the way I enjoy tabletop RPGs) because the model can't promote violence or other sorts of evil.
I get it, if you're making a chatbot, you don't want it suggesting wanton murder to fifth graders and grandmothers. But not every valid use of AI falls into the cleanly filtered worldview of Anthropic or OpenAI.
Or maybe I have it backwards. Maybe in the future everyone will flock to porn and ultraviolence because it's the only way to find genuine humanity in an AI-sanitized world.
FUCK this hypocritical piece of shit
Every time this guy speaks on this topic, he puts his credentials in doubt.
He's very good at what he does, which is 100% marketing.
I hate misanthropic so much, I honestly struggle to put it into words
Just ask Claude to help!
