How? If you want to distribute a commercial non-research model, simply train it on data sets where people have given consent. I doubt that research would be affected.
At most, I’d expect copyright legislation around training to slightly delay commercial mass-deployment. Given the huge socio-technical transition that is ahead of us, it’s probably a good thing to let people have a chance to form an opinion before opening the floodgates. Judging by our transition into ad-tech social media, I’m not exactly confident that we’ll end up in a good place, even if the tech itself has a lot of potential.
> How? If you want to distribute a commercial non-research model, simply train it on data sets where people have given consent. I doubt that research would be affected.
This is not necessary because the model was trained in Germany and the law there explicitly says you don't need to do that.
Use the model to generate image variations, filter out things that look too similar to the original. Then you can replace the original art works in the training set. Also remove artist names from the text, you can later create new style IDs. This will make it harder to duplicate the exact expression of an original work but still learn the ideas and visual styles in a more abstracted way.
For all the non-problematic training images you can use the originals. Some artists might want their names to become popular as style keywords.
I never suggested that. By floodgates, I mean widespread commercial application. If entirely new economic sectors are created, it’s incredibly hard, socially, to retroactively apply boundaries, should they be desirable. Initial conditions are incredibly impactful.
I’m aware of that argument, but it's not a silver bullet. Scale matters. There’s, for instance, a difference between looking at your neighbors house vs recording hi-res video. Human attention is an incredibly scarce resource, and arguably even sacred.
A neural network is anything but a high-res recording of the content it’s trained on. It’s got a particularly low resolution view (512x512 iirc) of its inputs.
You should read up on luddites more! This casual usage of the word along with the comical "literally" only disproves your own arguments, if there were any, and assumes bad faith.
> If you succeed, you will undo decades of technological progress.
There's never been since the industrial revolution a technology which has been "uninvented" so I'm going to guess that won't happen here either. The cat is out of the bag.
"But the police, however useless, were by no means idle: several notorious delinquents had been detected; men liable to conviction, on the clearest evidence, of the capital crime of poverty; men, who had been nefariously guilty of lawfully begetting several children, whom, thanks to the times!—they were unable to maintain. Considerable injury has been done to the proprietors of the improved frames. These machines were to them an advantage, inasmuch as they superseded the necessity of employing a number of workmen, who were left in consequence to starve. By the adoption of one species of frame in particular, one man performed the work of many, and the superfluous labourers were thrown out of employment."
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"The rejected workmen, in the blindness of their ignorance, instead of rejoicing at these improvements in arts so beneficial to mankind, conceived themselves to be sacrificed to improvements in mechanism. In the foolishness of their hearts, they imagined that the maintenance and well doing of the industrious poor, were objects of greater consequence than the enrichment of a few individuals by any improvement in the implements of trade which threw the workmen out of employment, and rendered the labourer unworthy of his hire. And, it must be confessed, that although the adoption of the enlarged machinery, in that state of our commerce which the country once boasted, might have been beneficial to the master without being detrimental to the servant;"
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"These men never destroyed their looms till they were become useless, worse than useless; till they were become actual impediments to their exertions in obtaining their daily bread. Can you then wonder, that in times like these, when bankruptcy, convicted fraud, and imputed felony, are found in a station not far beneath that of your Lordships, the lowest, though once most useful portion of the people, should forget their duty in their distresses, and become only less guilty than one of their representatives? But while the exalted offender can find means to baffle the law, new capital punishments must be devised, new snares of death must be spread, for the wretched mechanic who is famished into guilt. These men were willing to dig, but the spade was in other hands; they were not ashamed to beg, but there was none to relieve them. Their own means of subsistence were cut off; all other employments pre-occupied; and their excesses, however to be deplored and condemned, can hardly be the subject of surprise."
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"The present measure will, indeed, pluck it from the sheath; yet had proper meetings been held in the earlier stages of these riots,—had the grievances of these men and their masters (for they also have had their grievances) been fairly weighed and justly examined, I do think that means might have been devised to restore these workmen to their avocations, and tranquillity to the country."
Show me one worm that can paint as well as the original DALL•E, let alone v2 or Stable Diffusion.
Show me one worm — or even a hamster — that can drive a car as well as Tesla's Autopilot.
Show me one single non-human animal of any species that can write functioning Python code or CSS from a natural language description of what it should achieve, even if it only gets to GPT-2 level let alone v3 as used in Copilot or v3.5 as used in ChatGPT.
What we have yet to do with a worm is literally upload it's brain, but IIRC that's more because nobody with the money was interested in funding the one person publicly interested in figuring out how to measure synaptic weights in vivo.
If you succeed, you will undo decades of technological progress.