They're arguing that it's not a decomposition of the original expressions, but patterns extracted from the non-copyrightable data that's there. Thus, the model is not derivative and outputs too. The copying is a triviality they hope is waived by Fair Use or equivalent exception.
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Legal argument for machine learning as expressive use
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I wonder if someone with sufficient knowledge of the technology and of Copyright could come up with a legal argument to show that ML is actually an expressive use?
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Machine Learning Training and Copyright Bypass Legal Arguments
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By saying "Machine Learning and training is a non-expressive use" that just uses the data, you basically try to bypass Copyright internationally. Of course, it's bullshit that high-priced lawyers make up to land Big Tech contracts — or get funding for their University.
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Non-expressive Use: Legal Workaround for Copyright Avoidance
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The legal buzzword to use is "non-expressive use" here! It's a workaround for Copyright. Here's how it works: Since Copyright only applies to expressions and not ideas/data, you use semantic & "ontological games with legal implications" to avoid Copyright.
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AI Code Generation: Beyond Syntax Errors to Production Quality
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Rec'd read: "AI may turn out to be bttr at producing code than writing academic papers, as determining whether a program runs w/o syntax errors is far less subjective" https://
bit.ly/41vgF2C Beyond syntax: Is it prod-ready code fitting the use case? Was the generation legal? 1/2 -
Aligning Powerful AIs in Open-Source World
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I predict the same long term trend for AI – sharing is such a deep human trait & this lead me to the 2nd –even more important–thread I need to write which is: *how do we align powerful AIs in an open-source world* but this one is for another day 🙂 8/N
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Microsoft Dominance and Antitrust Lawsuits: Historical Market Lessons
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A good exemple is the recent alliance with Bain for extending everywhere in large companies Now back to 2000 what did this dominance led to: you probably remember it as several of the largest anti-trust lawsuits ever reaching several billion $ at that time for Microsoft 5/8
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AI Dominance and Antitrust: Learning from Tech’s Past
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Today's AI technology is even more ground breaking than the 2000's revolution. A future strongly dominated by a single actor in business domain will likely bring similar gigantic billion dollars antitrust actions. And… what emerged from the ashes of the 2000's battles? 6/8
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AI industry faces massive antitrust legal spending surge
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Ok friends, it's weekend, we've some time for us. So let me tell you about a possible future for AI where the largest AI spendings, in billions of dollars, in 2-3 years would be on… … antitrust legal fees A quick 1/8
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Government oversight of large-scale AI training compared to rocket regulations
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The comment “we think it’s important that major world governments have insight about training runs above a certain scale” makes me recall the 200,000 lb-sec FAA amateur rocketry limit.