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Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)

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Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's the defacto term for how we fit a statistical model to data, unrelated to any copyright concepts. I'm pretty sure we called it "training" back in 1997 when I was doing neural networks at uni, and it's probably been used well before then too.

Neural nets are based on the concept of Hebbian learning (from the 1930s), because they are trying to mimic how a biological neural network learns.

This concept of training/learning has persisted because it's a good analogy of what we are trying to do with these statistical models, even if they aren't strictly neural networks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This concept of training/learning has persisted because it's a good analogy of what we are trying to do with these statistical models, even if they aren't strictly neural networks.

LLMs are indeed neural networks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ahh ok. I didn't want to assume as I'm not familiar with the details.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TBH I'm not really familiar with how the AI has developed over the years. Wikipedia says that ChatGPT is proprietary, which leads me to believe it's hasn't been developed with research grants or government involvement. Is this the case? Can a company legally develop an AI by obtaining its learning material through illegal means? Which it sounds as if Open AI and Meta did through the use of Bibliotik.

I can't see how this doesn't have some legal ramification, but IANAL.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OpenAI is called that for a reason. They absolutely were a non-profit research org initially, so would have been eligible for research grants, etc. They would probably have gotten a pass on using the torrents too, for the same reason.

They went to a private for-profit model later after they built their AI's and wanted to start selling them as a service. How the hell all of that plays out as the company they are now is anyone's guess.