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They’re both infringement, and no-one in authority cares about either. This is kind of the situation we collectively negotiated post-Napster. Piracy is allowed to exist as long as distribution isn’t being directly commercialized; it is only addressed in a piece-meal fashion by big publishers on a short-term basis for their critical first weeks.
Haha he thinks these AI companies are buying the books.
It’s easy. Don’t follow the rules.
Oh no no no no you got it all wrong, you have to digitize it and then burn the CD so that nobody can ever see it unless they have access to that digital copy.
Something something who else was it that burned books?
It’s not a Jellyfin library. It’s a future AI training centre.
Man this community is just so sadly misguided. It’s not illegal to copy even under current draconian laws - publishing is the illegal part. Not to mention that learning from copyrighted material is fair use and you can argue that LLMs are not learning but first you must come to this argument fairly rather than spewing this ludite shit - what’s the point of this?
Copyright laws are just state’s monopoly on information, at this point.
False, they never bought your book.
Missed a major part: the AI companies are buying rare books, scanning them and then burning them. It’s not like buying a DVD which can easily be digitally copied with hardware that most people have at home, it’s so mucn worse than that.
The AI company doesn’t even have to buy it.
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Yep! Laws are literally only tools of oppression. They have never and will never protect you any time you need protecting. That is not what they’re for.
They couldn’t if they wanted to. Which they don’t.
I’m not so sure about that. Murder being illegal is the only way to get justice when a family member is killed outside of retribution, and that opens a whole can of worms
Edit: Whether or not it’s applied fairly is a different story and is likely the main issue, not that laws exist in general
being illegal
Ask an indigenous canadian, a black southeast american, or a trans person or sex worker anywhere how illegal murder is. Or anyone who disappeared after dating a cop
justice
Revenge is not justice. The state getting revenge ‘for you’ isn’t even good revenge. Fuck that.
How the fuck is me grabbing a rifle and shooting a fucker I’m sure killed a loved one in the head any less justice than the state deciding to hire a bite mark analyst to frame the person they want to go down for it and making sure someone’s punished so they look strong, then cooking them with a Looney toons gadget or dosing them with torture drugs til they die?
Neither of these things is justice, dead certain. Maybe neither of them should happen. But one of them would at least help repair some of the disempowerment and bring some dramatic shitty closure to my grief.
So even your worst case, the state is still more evil, fucked up, and useless for anything but the harm part.
“Doesn’t always” ≠ “never does”
That’s how you get feuds.
Seriously, did you think that the people convinced they’re right taking it into their own hands would stop with you? Haven’t you seen all those parents and other relatives arguing that their kid/whatever could never have done it? Even after mountains of evidence, let alone after they’re just gunned down? Some of them don’t even care if they did it!
And once its a social expectation that return violence will come if you retaliate, the logical next step is to wipe out the offending family. Because that’s the only way to take revenge and be safe. Shit gets bad fast.
One of the prime benefits of our “justice” system taking over the revenge business is limiting feuds.
Bitch if you just wanna rehash some warmed over uncle tom (the more problematic one) bullshit you’re free but I got over this ‘leviathan’ crap by the time I hit puberty and have no patience for it.
If you got nothing better than ‘but leviathan!’ and can’t read the clauses in what I wrote, or acknowledge any of the rest of what I said (‘maybe both these things are bad’?), you can go fuck yourself, 'cuz I’m having none of it.
You are certifiably deranged. Some people should never have been given internet access.
Sorry I don’t click yt links.
I agree with the conclusion, but that rationale is wrong. First, you can digitize a DVD. Second, it’s not a double standard. You can grab copies of random stuff and jam it in an AI model too.
Our laws are written such that it’s making a copy outside of reasonable use that’s illegal, and AI training only makes a copy incidentally to what they’re doing and then it’s deleted. It’s the same standard that makes viewing a photo on an artists website legal.It’s not bullshit because they’re breaking the law, but because we need to refine the law to make it clear training an AI model isn’t a reasonable usage anymore than a public broadcast of a DVD is a reasonable use.
Trying to shoehorn it into the existing laws will just create a nightmare of loopholes and complications.First, you can digitize a DVD.
Nitpick: Why would anyone do that, DVDs are already digital mediums with a filesystem. So they first have to convert to analog media first… And that introduces losses…
You just put a DVD in your drive and now you can copy files from it to you HD… If copying files is now called ‘digitizing’ we live in a strange world…
If you have a large number of DVDs, digitising them makes them easier to browse and decouples you from the physical medium (so you don’t have to bring them with you everywhere in order to watch them).
As for the conversion, maybe you’re confusing this with ripping vinyl or tape. Ripping a CD or a DVD is easy and reproducible and gives you a 1:1 digital copy of it.
Maybe because I’m not a native english speaker, but to me ‘digitising’ means converting an analog medium to a digital one. Like with vinyl, VHS, etc. And ‘ripping’ is about an extraction process. Like overcoming a protection or more difficult to access mediums like Audio CDs, which don’t have a real filesystem, and into a easily accessible single file on a harddrive.
DVDs are already digital, and if they don’t have a copy protection, which you have to rip through, you can just copy the files to a hardrive and then, if you want reencode them into one more portable file…
You’re missing his point, he’s unhappy with the word choice. Ripping a DVD is not digitizing it. Digitizing means specifically turning an analog signal digital.
Ah, my bad - now that I read it again, you’re right. In the same line of thought though “digitising” is sometimes wrongly used in the place of ripping.
AI training only makes a copy incidentally to what they’re doing and then it’s deleted. It’s the same standard that makes viewing a photo on an artists website legal.
That’s not what the U.S. Copyright office says about training. They hold that it does implicate the copyright of reproduction. Meaning: If you train on a protected work without a license you are violating copyright, and if that’s not a fair use then you are breaking the law.
Training ~ viewing might be an analogy used by “AI” brands, but it is not legal reality.
Its a slopper who wants to project these spreadsheets as ‘conscious’ when what’s happening is they’re essentially being transcoded into statistical models.
Yup. Give a Markov chain multi-billion parameters and you can get some surprisingly cogent results.
I will freely admit that current LLM architectures include several innovations that make them not actually Markov chains, but it’s still statistics and linear algebra. I don’t know what thought is, but I’m quite unconvinced that LLMs (or any current generative AI architecture) is doing it.
I don’t know what thought is, but I’m quite unconvinced that LLMs (or any current generative AI architecture) is doing it.
Okay, why not? I also don’t know what thought is, so I don’t think it’s possible to say if an LLM is or is not doing it. And giving wrong or incoherent answers doesn’t invalidate it as thought or your local stoner buddy would be considered brain dead.
I’ve not seen evidence of it in any of my interactions with generative AI, which have pretty universally been bad. I feel like it has something to do with autonomous spontaneity. I recognize it in animals I can’t communicate well with, but I found it lacking in the LLM that I tried to play a TTRPG with. It would be easier for me to be convinced, if I really had a better understanding of what thought is. It’s hard for me to be convinced because while I understand LLMs and diffusion networks better than most people*, I don’t think I understand thought so I recognize the gap.
Also I’m not sure I agree with your final assertion, the stoner buddy is plenty wrong, but there is a coherency there. When coherency disappears entirely from human thought that’s usually a seizure or stroke. Even as confusing as they are dreams and acid trips often have a coherency while you are in them, if not one that’s easily described when recalling the experience.
*: My formal AI training ended before big data met ML, so it’s woefully out of date. I am quite the computer geek tho, it’s just my passion tends toward languages, type systems, and proof assistants. So, better than most, but not an expert by any means.
Nah. Shut the fuck up slopper. If you’re going to insult us and then ask chatgpt to win the argument, which you always do and it always misses the point, I’m not going to answer your question.
The fact is these systems can do what a lot of humans do. That’s not because the matrix multiplication is identical to thinking, but because most of these humans have never thought in their lives, do not have interiority, and are not people in any way that matters. Prove you’re conscious if you want me to address you as such, fucking slopper.
I could’ve sworn a court case decided otherwise. Literally EVERY AI model in existence right now is commiting copyright theft on a massive scale if that’s the interpretation the courts took. Which is why I have a hard time buying it. I fear it’s reached the idea of normalcy in people’s minds and we’ll never see it illegal.
There’s been a couple court cases (that I know of / at least), and one judge was accepting on the argument that model training was a “fair use” while the other was not. I think both of those rulings came down prior to the publication of the U.S. Copyright Office guidelines.
Also, I’m not 100% sure that the U.S. Copyright Office is an authority here. The DOJ and/or Federal judiciary would have the authority to interpret the copyright laws: The DOJ to decide to prosecute, and the judiciary to make binding rulings and/or advise juries. I’m sure both the DOJ and the judiciary will give a lot of weight to the guidelines, but the guidelines aren’t actually the law.
In any case, you can read the guidelines and make your own decisions: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ Part 3 is about training, and I think the damning bits are III, B and D. Part 2 is about outputs, and I think the damning bits are II, B and D.2. (My summaries: 1. Training infringes 2. Outputs that are substantially similar infringe 3. models get no copyright 4. prompts are NOT ‘human creative effort’ and thus are insufficient to establish copyright 5. human creative effort still gets copyright protections, even when generative AI is used as a tool in the creative process.)
It is likely that commercial generative AI is in violation of a lot of copyrights, yes. Research projects are fair use, but only as long as they stay research projects.
There may be a limitation if the DVD is copy-protected, as is usually the case. There’s too much to read for a single comment in DMCA: https://www.congress.gov/105/plaws/publ304/PLAW-105publ304.pdf
But it does fall under this definition (§1201):
‘‘(a)(3) As used in this subsection—
‘‘(A) to ‘circumvent a technological measure’ means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;and
‘‘(a) VIOLATIONS REGARDING CIRCUMVENTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES.—(1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
They hyphenated techno-logical both times in the second paragraph? Was it a line break both times, or was the moron who wrote it really that out of touch with the topic he was writing laws for?
Line break, I’ll fix it.
The larger part of the infringement is probably its use commercially. I doubt that there would have been such a fuss if it was a fully-open, low-profit operation.
But as-is, the commercial products are being used to make money for the AI company in an unauthorised way.
Similar to how it’s generally frowned upon for fan media to make money, because it starts being infringement. You can have a “support the fan media maker” button, but you generally can’t do things like put your fan media behind a pay wall. The IP owners will come down hard on you for that.
Commercializing a work virtually guarantees it’s creation isn’t “fair use”.
But also, “fair use” is actually quite a bit more narrow than just non-commercial.
How do you digitize a DVD when it’s already digital?
Har har.
Different senses of the word digital. The dvd is digital as in “made discrete and not analog”.
I meant in the sense of “to move off of fixed use physical media and translate to a format more agnostic to storage medium or conducive to transfer and immediate processing”.
More succinctly: to copy something to a storage medium that’s harder to loose under the couch.
You can’t hold something in your hand if it’s digital.
Oh?
Okay so how DO you digitize it since you can also hold the SSD in your computer in your hand? In fact I can’t think of a data storage medium in use that you can’t touch physically at all.
On the cloud, duh
Why don’t you just buy a few senators and do something about it, if you’re so upset?
Yup. Donors get policies, voters get apologies.
Donors get policies, voters get
apologiesfined.
Rich Americans have money and buy senators.
Poor Americans have guns and take fascism sitting down.
MMW the midterm results will enshrine DNC Incumbents as the fascist enablers they are.
MMW the midterm results will enshrine DNC Incumbents as the fascist enablers they are.
Can’t wait for Dems to take both the House and Senate … and then always be just one vote short of being able to do anything meaningful. As usual.
If only Americans would learn from MAGA primarying GOP incumbents until the party moved in the direction they wanted.
Yep. The “fine OR imprisonment” part means fines for the rich, and imprisonment for the poor.
The filthy rich only go to prison for stealing from other filthy rich assholes.
“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class”
- Final Fantasy Tactics (1997)
tbf, some fines in europe are based on income, not a set value. I remember someone getting a fine of a few hundred grand.
97?! I was that old already… I thought this was older
Except it’s not even fines anymore, apparently it’s perfectly legal as long as you destroy the book after scanning it.
They used the duress PIN on their rare book library
Fines would be nice if they were tied to a percentage of someone’s net worth. Too bad something like that would never be accepted in the US though.
