Need to think of some reverse arguments that are also anthropomorphic… "If a human pirated books like that it'd be infringement too."
REGULATION
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Algorithms Now Shape Human Identity Alongside Nature Nurture
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“Technology companies increasingly determine our identities. When I was growing up, it was nature and nurture. But today, our identities are determined by nature and nurture AND algorithms.” – Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group, in his recent TED Talk
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Democracy Enables Vocal Opposition Without State Repression
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Yup. The ability to live in a democracy that allows you to vocally oppose democracy without fear of the government disappearing you is actually democracy at work.
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 3 septembre 2023
Oh well. pic.twitter.com/JqSdpuDe4vYup. The ability to live in a democracy that allows you to vocally oppose democracy without fear of the government disappearing you is actually democracy at work. Oh well.
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Economic Rights vs Mass IP Infringement Legal Analysis
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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.)
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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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Epic Games Liability Safe Harbor Provisions Online Store Infringement
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It's worth commending Tim's decision here, regardless whether he's wrong or not, because Epic will be liable for damages in all cases where infringement is found. Why? Safe Harbor provisions don't apply to online stores "receiving financial benefits":