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[–] 46 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Can AI commit copyright infringement if it was trained on the material?

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  • [–] 42 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Quiery: Please show me an AI rendering of 1979 Alien, but with no changes from the original. Go.

    Surely this is peak Internet.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Now show me Alien if it had been released in 1999 instead.

    Aborts after 5 seconds, realizing the entertainment value will be pretty much entirely laughing at the ridiculous things it got wrong which is already old

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Truly as far as I know there is no case law for this to date.

    I thought about this for a while but I have no clue what the current direction is.

    Essentially stealing data and putting them in datasets is illegal. AI models might be illegal, if the court considers them legally functionally the same. But if they don't, they could meet any number of new legal definitions and that gets us back to "idk". What is funny is because you would technically do the same copyright infringement that the AI companies do (if it gets ruled that way), these companies are essentially arguing for you, and so you could ride on the coat tails of corpo lawyers.

    But yeah, it's complicated.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    how can a model commit copyright infringement if the work it does generates no rights?

    i'm not (just) being a smartass, it feels like this is the rub in the legal issue. when you create something, you have an implicity copyright to it (according to my sister who did her law school internships at IP law firms. she now works in medicine so it looks like law school did her some good) so claiming even an implicit copyright on someone else's work infringes on the (maybe implicit, maybe explicit) copyright their work has. Which is why you have to transform it, not just imitate it.

    Look at Huey Lewis and Ray Parker Jr. Huey Lewis and the News made I Want a New Drug. Ray Parker Jr made Ghostbusters. What makes them distinct songs (and keeps Ghostbusters from being a pale imitation) is that Ray Parker Jr added a bridge and put a hook of his own in it. I've yet to hear AI music that has any hooks that weren't directly lifted from other artists. quite simply it lacks soul. AI could not have (and still can't) turned I Want A New Drug into Ghostbusters.

    In the following essay I will discuss

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I feel like an AI company might argue that generative AI is so transformative in the math aspect that it's transformative even if it gives you an exact copy of a copy written work. Which would be silly, but we in uncharted times and the laws are dumb.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    OpenAI and Anthropic and Alphabet etc try their best to preventing it from doing so, so the act of getting it to do so anyway is "jailbreaking", but yes. LLMs can reproduce works it was trained on. (At least chunk-by-chunk each limited to the token limit.) And I'd imagine the same is true of things like Stable Diffusion, though it might be much easier to get Stable Diffusion to produce something similar enough to qualify as a "derivative work" than it would be to get it to produce exactly the original.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Why not train a model on exactly one work (effectively encoding the work in the model)? Is the ability to produce something else an argument against copyright infringement?

    If the definition of AI is broad enough, train a video encoder and make the act of viewing a video file copyright stripping!

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I’m gonna sue my ass for what It did to me!

    I've already punished myself with a pay cut.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    Man I hate it when that happens.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    I find that consuming popcorn and beer while analyzing the files that "invaded" your system, helps to pinpoint issues you may have missed. And don't forget to take a pizza break with all that hard work you have ahead.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago
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    It's an epidemic

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago
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    [–] 41 points 3 months ago

    Don't forget to feed that media dataset to your local AI to help develop it. You can download all you want for that purpose btw.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago

    A third party I contract with is consuming large quantities of copyrighted material to provide training material for my personal Ain't-artificial Intelligence Model. There's just no way to build it otherwise, and we can't possible afford for the Chinese to beat us to this goal. No rare books have been harmed in this effort.

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  • [–] 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    AI companies are jiggling keys at the current government

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  • [–] 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I have exactly the same issue! I'm still investigating the root cause. In mean while I'm deeply sorry for inconvenience.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've already told them a few hundred million dollars of government assistance would expedite the investigation significantly but unfortunately it does not seem to be a priority of the current administration. It is a very complex and unprecedented situation, after all. At this rate it may take decades, possibly centuries before it concludes.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    The current level of funding is insufficient to adequately support the research and investigative activities required to complete the study within a reasonable timeframe. Without substantial additional financial resources, the investigation may be significantly prolonged, potentially extending over several decades before sufficient evidence and findings can be obtained.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    This does not seem to be an isolated event. I have had something similar happen several times. It seems the more I talk about it the more attention I get and the attention feels good so I just keep talking about it.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    We're all just trying to find the guy who did this, ok?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Damn, I thought this is only happening to me. We should probably put our heads together and figure this out before it gets out of hand. Before we know it, we may have to build thousands of data centers to deal with this.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    I'm training the AI in the bottom of my amygdala on episodes of Slow Horses. I've heard copyright doesn't apply, that's fair use.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    It's a shame nothing can be done about these security breaches. Absolutely nothing at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    The liberal media is repeating the same TIRED talking points about me downloading copyrighted yuri! COMPLETELY FALSE rumors Made up by Spectrum and other failed ISPs! Lucky Star is NOT YURI! Many people are also saying that Sakura Trick is not Yuri either because of its strong Anti Woke message of HARD WORK. Our people as always were VERY successful making New York Times cry over our strength at downloading the LEGAL linux ISOs that we SEED TO 2 ALWAYS from our beautiful RAID enclosure! Everybody in the Know has Already been talking about this.. We will also be investigating for Haruka Derangement Syndrome in all federal Employees going forward - very, very sick people who have NO IDEA who the absolute best girl is do not belong in goverment! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago