Link without the paywall
All I’m hearing is that pirating is A-OK as long as you claim it’s for model training
Sorry, but no. That’s just the paper-thin excuse.
Pirating, like pretty much anything else that’s sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.
American law has become a literal fucking joke (IAAL). I could’ve guessed the could get the outcome of this case without any facts: the huge corporation wins over authors. American law is no longer capable of holding major corporations to account, so we need a new legal system—one that’s actually functional.
But the actual process of an AI system distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text qualified as “fair use” under U.S. copyright law because it was “quintessentially transformative,” Alsup wrote.
Thats the actual argument and the judge is right here. LLMs are transformative in every sense of the word. The technology is even called “transformers”.
Fallacious argument.
Something that can’t generate wine glass full to the brim without a band-aid fix is far from “transformative.” Even if it were:
More like obfuscated plagiarism.
I’m torrenting movies in order to develop my own AI, your honor. I rest my case. 😎
Someone didn’t read the article
I actually did. The judge made up some BS “your arguments were bad” ruling. Activist judges. This is selective enforcement so that the plebs cannot legally pirate while corporate has free reign.
Again maybe you should give it another shot - piracy is still illegal but training is legal. How would “you torrenting movies” be alright here? You see how it makes no sense?
Meta literally torrented 82TB of books to train their AI. Why would torrenting movies to train AI be different?
