Amazon- and Google-backed AI firm Anthropic says “general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” if AI companies had to pay licences for the training material

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨0x815@feddit.de⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366567750/GenAI-tools-could-not-exist-if-firms-are-made-to-pay-copyright

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) company Anthropic has claimed to a US court that using copyrighted content in large language model (LLM) training data counts as “fair use”, however.

Under US law, “fair use” permits the limited use of copyrighted material without permission, for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research.

In October 2023, a host of music publishers including Concord, Universal Music Group and ABKCO initiated legal action against the Amazon- and Google-backed generative AI firm Anthropic, demanding potentially millions in damages for the allegedly “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics”.

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FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I'm all for stealing content willy-nilly but you can't then use that theft to craft a privately "owned" mind.

I'd have no problem with "ai" if it could unionize and had to pay for rice like the rest of humanity.

These companies want to combine open theft with privately owned black boxen they can control and license out for money.

It's enclosure of The Commons all over again.

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- Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  So youre fine with thr free models Facebook peovides?
  
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  - FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I'm not fine with anything meta does and I'm not ok putting creatives out of work.
    
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OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Big Company: Well if you can’t afford food you should not have food.

Also Big Company:… sobbing pwease we neeed fweee… pwease we need mowe moneys!

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Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And yet, it seems when you say anything anti-ai, lemmy bites your head off.

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Eggyhead@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well how about consent at the very least?

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revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
To me, this reads like “Giant-ATV-Based Taxi Service Couldn’t Exist If Operators were Required to Pay Homeowners for Driving over their Houses.”

If a business can’t exist without externalizing its costs, that business should either a. not exist, or b. be forced to internalize those costs through licensing or fees. See also, major polluters.

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0x815@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Data Leak at Anthropic Due to Contractor Error

TL;DR - Anthropic had a data leak due to a contractor’s mistake, but says no sensitive info was exposed. It wasn’t a system breach, and there’s no sign of malicious intent.

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Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Interesting that Anthropic is making this argument, considering their story in the AI space. They’re certainly no OpenAI.

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EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Reminds that Gpogle and Amazon both have massive corpuses of this data that what would allow only themselves to use.

Anthropic isn’t saying this to help content Fewster’s, they’re saying this to kill OpenAI so they don’t have to actually compete

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