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>I think it is more reasonable for content owners to say what can and cannot be done with their data.

They lose that right as soon as they sell it to other people.

No, you can't sell a book to someone and then sue anyone who reads the book, upside down.

That would be ridiculous. If you don't want someone reading your book upside down, or training on it, then don't sell books.




You assume that "training" and human learning are similar things.

This is a bit like saying that taking a holiday picture of someone, and putting a surveillance camera on the street are the same thing.

I think many books actually prohibit the storage into an information retrieval system and AI can be considered a form of that.


> You assume that "training" and human learning are similar things.

No I don't. Because a human is choosing to enact the training regardless.

Just like if a human held a book up to a rock. It would be ridiculous that an author could ban a human from "training" a rock from a book. Its their book, and they can show it to a rock if they want!


If you buy a DVD and show it at work, then that's also ok, because it is your DVD and you can do with it whatever you want?

Turns out, nope, that's not ok.


> show it at work

No that distribution.

So my point stands. If you sell someone a book, you can't just put arbitrary restrictions on it. You cannot ban someone from training a model on it, nor ban you ban someone freak reading it upside down, or showing it to a rock.

You tried to claim that basically any restriction can be put on how something is used. Thats simply not true. Distribution is a specific carve out that has regulations on it.

But someone absolutely could train a model, as well as read it upside, or show it to a rock.




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