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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • What do you mean that the search engines contain minimal amount of site’s data? Obviously it needs to index all contents to make it searchable. If you search for keywords within an article, you can find the article, therefore all of it needs to be indexed.

    Indexing is nothing more than “presenting data to the algorithm” so it’d be against the law to index a site under your proposed legislation.

    Wrong. The infringement is in obtaining the data and presenting it to the AI model during the training process. It makes no difference that the original work is not retained in the model’s weights afterwards.

    This is an interesting take, I’d be inclined to agree, but you’re still facing the problem of how to distinguish training AI from indexing for search purposes. I’m afraid you can’t have it both ways.




  • What do you think “ingesting” means if not learning?

    Bear in mind that training AI does not involve copying content into its database, so copyright is not an issue. AI is simply predicting the next token /word based on statistics.

    You can train AI in a book and it will give you information from the book - information is not copyrightable. You can read a book a talk about its contents on TV - not illegal if you’re a human, should it be illegal if you’re a machine?

    There may be moral issues on training on someone’s hard gathered knowledge, but there is no legislature against it. Reading books and using that knowledge to provide information is legal. If you try to outlaw Automating this process by computers, there will be side effects such as search engines will no longer be able to index data.










  • This meme format always annoys me because of the double negative. If “nobody” says nothing, then surely everyone says something.

    Having said that, my native language uses double negative, for example “nobody said nothing” does mean that nobody said anything, but for some reason in the way the meme presents it and English language, it does not work for me.