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Although recent US international politics did stain the US image in Europe substantually. Just the most recent betrayal against Ukraine is a good example of why.
I addressed this by saying if the training data counts as the human input, then the creative authorship of the weights are all the creatives that involuntarily supplied the training data -- not the labs training the models.
I'm angry and laughing at the same time. The audacity! The biggest theft of IP in history, and then the "attacker" whines the same thing happens to them?
To be fair and balanced: • Anthropic payed up (a little) for their theft. • They pretend to be concerned about cyber and national security at least.
There needs to be a coherent position on knowledge and intellectual property: either it's free to take and share, then no one can complain. Or one can "own" an idea, then the AI companies first need to pay up for real (how is Sony doing it?). They can license (subscribe!) all the works used for training and after that they can bitch around about distillation "attacks".
I can't quite put my finger on it, but aren't these two statements add odds with each other? Intelligence is hard to define, consciousness even more so, but wouldn't "intelligence" imply some sort of agency? If not, I'd argue computers were intelligent long before the age of LLMs. And likewise, doesn't a tool imply the lack of intelligence and agency, even if the tool's function is very elaborate?
I got the impression that both these statements are made by the same people, or at least people with similar takes on AI. Is that wrong and there are "intelligence" and "tool" factions? Or do people disagree with my assumption and there's nothing wrong with the concept of "intelligent tools"?
Kinda refreshing this discussion, compared to the builder vs. tinkerer debates, imo.
I really don't see any solution to this; the scrapers probably wouldn't even mind destroying sources like IA too much, which would leave them as the only "authorative" source of knowledge in the end. Best way is likely regulation incl. hefty (!) fines, but politics are too slow and too fragmented to be effective. So... Enjoy it while it lasts, I guess.