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GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright::undefined
GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright::undefined
I’m curious why we think otherwise when it is a student obtaining an unauthorized copy of a textbook to study, or researchers getting papers from sci-hub. Probably because it benefits corporations and they say so?
While I would like to be in a world where knowledge is free, this is apples and oranges.
OpenAI can purchase a textbook and read it. If their AI uses the knowledge gained to explain maths to an individual, without reproducing the original material, then there’s no issue.
The difference is the student in your example didn’t buy their textbook. Someone else bought it and reproduced the original for others to study from.
If OpenAI was pirating textbooks, that would be a wholly separate issue.
I was under the impression they mentioned at some point torrenting things
Don’t know about OpenAI, but Meta used pirated books to train its AI.
https://www.techspot.com/news/101507-meta-admits-using-pirated-books-train-ai-but.html
I agree that the issues
are separate, but I think they are related, in that AI companies are trying to impose whatever interpretation of copyright that is convenient to them to the rest of the society.
And indeed Meta pirated books to feed its AI.
https://www.techspot.com/news/101507-meta-admits-using-pirated-books-train-ai-but.html