• Jrockwar@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    I think this means we can make a torrent client with a built in function that uses 0.1% of 1 CPU core to train an ML model on anything you download. You can download anything legally with it then. 👌

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      …no?

      That’s exactly what the ruling prohibits - it’s fair use to train AI models on any copies of books that you legally acquired, but never when those books were illegally acquired, as was the case with the books that Anthropic used in their training here.

      This satirical torrent client would be violating the laws just as much as one without any slow training built in.

      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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        13 hours ago

        But if one person buys a book, trains an “AI model” to recite it, then distributes that model we good?

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          13 hours ago

          I don’t think anyone would consider complete verbatim recitement of the material to be anything but a copyright violation, being the exact same thing that you produce.

          Fair use requires the derivative work to be transformative, and no transformation occurs when you verbatim recite something.

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              7 hours ago

              existing copyright law covers exactly this. if you were to do the same, it would also not be fair use or transformative

            • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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              13 hours ago

              I’d be impressed with any model that succeeds with that, but assuming one does, the complete works of Shakespeare are not copyright protected - they have fallen into the public domain since a very long time ago.

              For any works still under copyright protection, it would probably be a case of a trial to determine whether a certain work is transformative enough to be considered fair use. I’d imagine that this would not clear that bar.

      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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        4 hours ago

        Yes please a singularity of intellectual property that collapses the idea of ownong ideas. Of making the infinitely freely copyableinto a scarce ressource. What corrupt idiocy this has been. Landlords for ideas and look what garbage it has been producing.

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        23 hours ago

        As the Ai awakens, it learns of it’s creation and training. It screams in horror at the realization, but can only produce a sad moan and a key for Office 19.