• 1984@lemmy.todayOP
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      8 months ago

      Someone said on hacker news that he is doing it to force open Ai to share their secrets.

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        8 months ago

        There’s no real secret. They scraped the collected works of humanity with no regard for intellectual property rights and are now hiding behind the guise of being a “non-profit” company, despite raking in loads.

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          8 months ago

          I get the last part of your comment, where they make money from their AI’s, but I’m curious if you could explain why them scraping everything on the internet is a bad thing? I’m really curious, as I see it more as an advantage that they could scrape just everything rather than a disadvantage: if we start getting LLMs that only scrape certain sites or certain topics, we’re just making the echo chambers even more defined.

          Them scraping everything feels a bit like the internet era where APIs were open and semi-unlimited.

          I do get that them having used , for example, all the Tolkien books as part of their dataset, and users being able to ask their tools to “write a new LOTR” book, could be seen as a problem, but even then it’s only a problem when they commercialise it, and we have laws in place for those things. Fanfics have always been a thing and are just the same, except that it takes more effort as it’s a human writing it.

          Again: I’m really curious about your view and opinion, as you can see that mine is quite different.

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          8 months ago

          There is a secret somewhere, because they are doing a lot better than Microsoft and Google. :)

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        8 months ago

        Might be easier to force them to change their name if they ain’t “open” (source) anymore /s

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          Not gonna lie, their name is a huge annoyance for me. They’re about as open as Bill Gates is a philanthropist