Are you a real person ? Obviously there is more to it than that. Just because you’ve seen Mickey Mouse and can draw you should get to sell anything you can make with his likeness ? Or record any song you’ve heard ?
Obviously there is some gray area in the training conversation but let’s not pretend that these content owner arguments are baseless just to push progress at all costs ahead.
I don’t know enough of biology or genetics or evolution, but
surely the millions of years of training that is hardcoded into our genes and expressed in our biology had much larger “training” runs.
This is a negotiation tactic by the NYT to drive up the licensing price. Period.
The Napster/Music Industry analogy has no resemblance to this situation.
The only meaningful question that might be answered as a result of this is, what permission and access rights do crawlers have to content that is publicly and legally available.
This wasn’t obvious, but it seems likely when you put it that way.
Unlike other iconic company/founder origin stories OpenAI really felt like they hit a special team dynamic that was on the verge of some equally special.
In light of this OpenAI still feels like they will be a relevant player, but I’ll be expecting more from Sam and Greg.
It happens everywhere and with everyone. I wouldn’t read into it that much. Personally I find the lack of capitalism more sincere and I see everyone at every level on the totem do it.
This answered a question I had “I wonder what that guy who wrote that thing on ‘the superintelligence/fast take off idea eating smart people’ thinks of all this new ai stuff” thanks HN!
I still can’t understand the “supersmart ai is so smart we can’t unplug it/patch it/restart it” before it transfers itself into every pacemaker.
Until these things are literally in bodies with some autonomy that allows them to control what happens to their brains, we will shut them off when they cause trouble.
It might not be good at generating original posts, but it’s really good at generating HN comments.
Try it!
Generate typical HN comments to this PG post [ … ].
- Include both positive and negative comments.
- add replies that focus on annoying details that draw attention to the commenter
- include fan boy defence of original post
- point out obvious exceptions
Obviously there is some gray area in the training conversation but let’s not pretend that these content owner arguments are baseless just to push progress at all costs ahead.
His point stands.