The outputs are still bound to copyright laws. Tracing pixel per pixel over an artwork doesn’t make it immune to copyright laws, maliciously over training gen ai to act like a database and outright copy shouldn’t either.

If you have a carbon copy of someone’s github, it doesn’t matter if you generated it, it’s still a copy. Although code is a difficult example since I’m not entirely where the line is for one repo to be different then the other when they are accomplishing the same task.

I always imagined businesses just grabbed the gpl software and would tell their employees to rewrite it but different. Most things I dive down into seem to stem from one algorithm or two from a paper and the rest is fluff.

Yup. Audio books aren’t very big once converted to a reasonable format and with the amount of space these days, I can comfortably keep a dozen on me at all times.

In such a scenario, it will be worth it. Llm aren’t databases that just hold copy pasted information. If we get to a point where it can spit out whole functional githubs replicating complex software, it will be able to do so with most software regardless of being trained on similar data or not.

All software will be a prompt away including the closed sourced ones. I don’t think you can get more open source then that. But that’s only if strident laws aren’t put in place to ban open source ai models, since Google will put that one prompt behind a paychecks worth of money if they can.

I’m not sure how that applies in the current context, where it would be used as training data.

The dismantling goes into overdrive if they send all the juges who can stop it on vacation. I really want them to shut it down but I don’t think it would help.

My dogs face when I’m holding bacon is how I imagine Republicans look when they see a boot.

Why aren’t the tarifs working, is fox news lying to me?

Fuck it, I’d tell his wife. He is obviously a POS and my fictional daughter deserves better. If he wants to toy around with my family, I will do the same.

If it costs billions and billions, then only a handful of companies can afford to build an AI and they now have a monopoly on a technology that will eventually replace a chunk of the workforce. It would basically be giving our economy to Google.

If copyrights are used to add a huge price tag to any AI development, then it did just hamper innovation and technological development.

And sadly, what most are clamoring for will disproportionately affect open source development.

It’s a drop in the bucket compared to what’s actually causing damage like vehicles and plane travel.

Estimates for [training and building] Llama 3 are a little above 500,000 kWh[b], a value that is in the ballpark of the energy use of a seven-hour flight of a big airliner.

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-energy-footprint-of-humans-and-large-language-models/

That’s around 570 average american homes.

That being said, it’s a malicious and stupidly formed comparaison. It’s like comparing the cost of building a house vs staying in a hotel for a night.

The model, once trained can be constantly re-used and shared. The llama model has been downloaded millions of time. It would be better to compare it to the cost of making the movie.

An average film production with a budget of $70 million leaves behind a carbon footprint of 3,370 metric tons – that’s the equivalent of powering 656 homes for a year!

https://thestarfish.ca/journal/2025/01/understanding-the-environmental-impact-of-film-sets#%3A~%3Atext=While+it's+easy+to+get%2C656+homes+for+a+year!

My main inspiration for this one!

I’m definitely stretching it a bit here. It would also slam into the planet at the speed it should be going.

The goverment will kill Anna’s archive the moment laws stemming from this lawsuits are passed. It guarantees any new open source initiatives don’t surface once they are all shut down. The big players will be okay though since they can stomach the fines and pay for the data.

You sound like my grandfather when he talks about techno.

I started lying to myself

Google paid 60 million for reddits data. They will pay the price they are asked from the 5 big publishing houses and they will happily do it because it gives them a monopoly.

Googles revenue in 2022 was 280 billion. They can easily afford this and aren’t close to “barely stomaching” anything.

Wishful thinking imo.

If a traditional God exists, it’s most likely a trans dimensional being that is vastly beyond our comprehension. It’s silly to assume anything by it’s behavior or lack of such.

But yes, organised religion declaring they talk for or understand such a being are obviously bullshit.

The lawsuit would be a small blow to Meta but an absolutely massive one to open source. Google, Meta and Microsoft are essentially the only companies that can actually afford to pay for this data.

It’s these lawsuits that will pave the way towards a soft monopoly with a limited choice of censored models all behind pricey subscription services.

if there did exist a god, s/he would not allow a situation where both these religions can co-exist.

All this proves is that he doesn’t care about the intricacies of organised religion, not that he doesn’t exist.