Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

  • kibiz0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    In a perfect world, yes, I think AIs can and should be trained on real world content, but if those AIs still don’t understand the nuances of attribution, paraphrasing, and plagiarism, then that’s still a problem that needs to be addressed.

    What a joke. Oh okay, if the LLMs output can annotate where the snippets came from, then it’s totally cool.

    The fuck are we doing? We’re really sleepwalking into a future where a few companies are able to slurp up the entire history of human creative thought, crunch some statistics about it with the help of severely underpaid Kenyans, and put a paywall around it, and that’s totally legal.

    Every time I see an “AI” (these are not fucking AI, and yet we’re fucking doomed already) apologist, I always think of Peter Gibbons explaining the “fractions of a penny” scheme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjCQ3T5yXo

    “It becomes ours”

    Are we really this dumb? Maybe we deserve the dystopia we’re building.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 months ago

      I get it. Can seem alarming, and I won’t argue here about training on copyrighted works.

      a few companies are able to slurp up the entire history of human creative thought, crunch some statistics about it with the help of severely underpaid Kenyans, and put a paywall around it, and that’s totally legal.

      If a few companies can slurp up our entire public domain history and profitably paywall useful products of it, have there still been moral failings?

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      We’re really sleepwalking into a future where a few companies are able to slurp up the entire history of human creative thought, crunch some statistics about it with the help of severely underpaid Kenyans, and put a paywall around it, and that’s totally legal.

      That future already happened ten years ago when NYT lost its lawsuits against Google.