OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series::A new research paper laid out ways in which AI developers should try and avoid showing LLMs have been trained on copyrighted material.
And I do. People are entitled to own their ideas. That’s a pillar I’m not willing to budge on.
As long as art has value, then the ideas do too, and the artists should be compensated for it.
Removing copyright would essentially mean the stopping of sharing everything because everyone is going to be hiding their secrets as close as possible so nobody can come and steal them and make money off them. There’d be no return on investment for any kind of research, no incentive for any artist to share their work and I firmly believe we’ll be significantly worse off without it.
That sounds exactly backwards - letting people share information freely means there’ll be more sharing of information. The whole point is that we should have a model where information is freely available. At worst that entails a separation of verticals for “research” and “production”. A society can fund research as much as it feels like.
Re: corporate secrets etc. - the same principle goes for legal agreements that bind employees from sharing them. How does it benefit humanity more for a corporation to be operating in secret, using secret chemicals or processes or whatever to create a good? That right off the bat sounds like a recipe for an environmental disaster, not even getting into the problems with discouraging the advancement of technology.
Anyway, this is exactly what I meant with my original comment. Of course I’ve heard all these defenses before. It’s the same rehashed crap I’ve been hearing for decades to defend this broken institution. I said “nobody would be defending this if it wasn’t already the status quo”, precisely because that’s when people feel like any other way of doing it is impossible. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_justification
“As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously” - Benjamin Franklin