Big tech has collectively decided to go for the “ask forgiveness later” approach and society hasn’t shown any coherent resolute decision either way.
In the absence of that it’s pretty much genie out of the bottle and every day that passes more so. Meaning legal system will have to bend towards reality and copyright is dead in LLM context and thus many other contexts as well.
>Meaning legal system will have to bend towards reality and copyright is dead in LLM context and thus many other contexts as well.
I certainly hope so. There are already a few text and data mining exemptions in place in Japan, Israel and Europe. The US has fair use, so we'll see what ends up being covered and what needs to be licensed. In my view just scaling up llms with more data isn't the future either way. We see this with llama 3, Claude 3, coheres model and gpt 4 being all pretty close together on llm leaderboards. If anything progress seems to be slowing down.
Clumsy as the copyright system is it does attempt to solve an actual problem. I do feel for the true artists getting their style ripped off for half a penny in image gen tokens for example.
That’s the crux of it
Big tech has collectively decided to go for the “ask forgiveness later” approach and society hasn’t shown any coherent resolute decision either way.
In the absence of that it’s pretty much genie out of the bottle and every day that passes more so. Meaning legal system will have to bend towards reality and copyright is dead in LLM context and thus many other contexts as well.