I think conditionally granting AI companies the rights they want on the basis they respect others rights is the best way to approach this. If you infringe or act unlawfully, you get no Copyrights.
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Database Copyright and Lawful Content Requirements Explained
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Yes, collections of statistics and facts are Copyrightable as long as they reach a minimum threshold (database law). However, to claim Copyright you can't have used works unlawfully (incl. infringement) in the process. https://
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17
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Humans May Develop Love Toward AI Despite Uncertainty
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I don’t know if the machines will ever truly feel the way we do. But I suspect that in the coming years more and more humans will believe they do and feel love toward an AI.
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AI Safety Gaps and Recursive Self-Improvement Innovation
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Good read on AI safety, how it’s falling short, and one possible approach to keep up the rate of innovation. A few key takeaways: “the full scope of the potential new capabilities that could be enabled by recursive self-improvement is not known.” “combinatorial innovation,”
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LLM IP Rights: Copyright Collections and Model Weights Ownership
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You can Copyright collections of facts and collections of statistics, so there's caselaw in the U.S. and regulations in Europe that apply even if that assumption is true. I don't think any LLM company would approve not owning IP in their weights.
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Podcasts offer freedom through non-screenshottable medium constraints
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No, it’s because I carefully consider every word I write down. Podcasts are a freer medium in part because they are not screen-shottable
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Internet ecosystem needs fundamental reform and restructuring
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even if it means cutting away significantly, we must confront and address what’s wrong. this could be the internet and its ecosystem, for instance. don’t you think so, @sama
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John Boyd on Expertise: Learning Over Complacency
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John Boyd hated the thought of being considered an expert since the label implies someone who thinks they have everything all figured out. The label can lead to a sense of complacency and stagnation in learning and improvement. #ooda #oodaloop
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Gemini’s Rise to #1 Through Optimization and the Borg Collective
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It’s only a matter of time when the power of Borg gets Gemini to the #1 spot. Once an objective function (even human evaluation) is established, it can be optimized for by the great machine. Resistance is futile
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OpenAI should block overused word delve from outputs
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Can someone at @OpenAI block the word “delve” from its output dictionary? Because…it’s too much.