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Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI
(www.theatlantic.com)
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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You seem to imply that AI has perfect memory. It doesn't.
Stable Diffusion is a 4GB file of weights. ChatGPT's model is of a similar size. It is mathematically impossible for it to store the entire internet on a few GBs of data, just like it is physically impossible for one human brain to store the entire internet with its neutral network.
But you can easily fit all of Kings work in a 4gb model. Just because it isn't done in the most popular models, doesn't make it ethical to do it in the first place.
In my opinion, you should only be able to use a work to train an AI model, if the work is public domain or if you have explicit permission to do so by the license holder. Especially if you then use that model for profit or charge orders to use ie.
But, uhhhh, they didn't. They didn't copy everything, word for word, and put it into a model. That's not how AI models work.
I didn't claim it was.
We can discuss technicalities all day long, but that's so beside the point. Thread OP claimed that creating an LLM based on a copyrighted work is okay, because humans are influenced by other works as well. But a human can't crank out hundreds of Stephen King-like chapters per hour. Or hundreds of Dali-like paintings pretty minute.
If King or Dali had given permission for their works to be used in this way, it might have been a different story, but as it is, AI models are being trained on (and profit from) huge amounts of data that they did not have permission for.
Edit: nevermind, I think trying to discuss AI ethics with you is pointless. Have a nice weekend!
so?