Do individual lose their economic and moral rights when an opposing party is taking the rights away from so many other people it doesn't count anymore? That's equally unsupported by the law. (Copying is substantial, 100% of the works are copied.)
ETHICS
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LLM Training on Pirated Content: Copyright Implications
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Since these models are widely known to be trained on pirated books, and Tim is so eager to compare LLMs to people, keep in mind that people learning from pirated content is infringement (books or videos): https://
quora.com/Is-it-copyrigh
t-violation-that-downloading-pirated-movies-on-the-Internet-for-learning-purposes
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Web Scrapers and Copyright Infringement Liability Scale
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Machines are a little different than humans (you don't say), so it's easy for them to end up doing "commercial-scale infringement" if you run your scraper for more than a minute… Liability in those cases is even bigger, including higher damages: https://
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17
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Fair Use Legal Implications for AI in Gaming Applications
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It's not just @TimSweeneyEpic personal opinion, given legal risk, he has a fiduciary duty to ensure shareholders are onboard too. Even more impressive, Fair Use is assessed on a case-by-case basis, for each in-game application it may turn out differently: https://
guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/fair
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Copyright Chains and AI Training Data Legal Complexity
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This risk is the reason why all movies and games have clear Chains Of Title involving the Copyrights of tens of thousands of people and many terabytes of data… (Almost as much data as goes into a model, though admittedly created by fewer people than a web-scale datasets.)
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Metcalfe’s Law Risks in Multiplayer AI Systems
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Yep, Metcalfe’s laws don’t just apply to good things in multi player settings.
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User Perception in AI: Abstract vs Literal Interpretation
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At an abstract level, the user is never wrong. But not literally take what they say to face value.
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Black Swan Risk Management: Preparing for Unprecedented Events
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I think about this from time to time as a risk management lesson. Just because something has never happened before does not mean it will not. And just because an expert has skin in the game does not mean they are right. Take risks of course, but have a plan. #ooda #globalrisk
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Genome editing ethics: embryo modification breach examined
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Genome editing of diseases represents vital progress, offering cures to some unapproachable conditions. But Jiankui's embryo editing was a dangerous breach of medical ethics as I reviewed when his rogue work went public in 2018 https://
nytimes.com/2018/11/27/opi
nion/genetically-edited-babies-china.html
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Contacting Paper Authors for Emissions Estimation
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Agreed, although the other suggestion of checking in with paper authors if you're trying to estimate emissions based on work they've published is also sensible.