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[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago

'Reading my book infringes on my copyright.' say confused writers.

[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 62 points 1 year ago

This is a strawman.

You cannot act as though feeding LLMs data is remotely comparable to reading.

[-] Gatsby@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
[-] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Because reading is an inherently human activity.

An LLM consuming data from a training model is not.

[-] TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

LLMs forcing us to take a look at ourselves and see if we're really that special.

I don't think we are.

[-] Dominic@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

For now, we're special.

LLMs are far more training data-intensive, hardware-intensive, and energy-intensive than a human brain. They're still very much a brute-force method of getting computers to work with language.

[-] Pips@lemmy.film 5 points 1 year ago

Because the LLM is also outputting the copyrighted material.

[-] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

So could any human that got inspired by something...

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