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[–] elrik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (19 children)

AI can “learn” from and “read” a book in the same way a person can and does

This statement is the basis for your argument and it is simply not correct.

Training LLMs and similar AI models is much closer to a sophisticated lossy compression algorithm than it is to human learning. The processes are not at all similar given our current understanding of human learning.

AI doesn’t reproduce a work that it “learns” from, so why would it be illegal?

The current Disney lawsuit against Midjourney is illustrative - literally, it includes numerous side-by-side comparisons - of how AI models are capable of recreating iconic copyrighted work that is indistinguishable from the original.

If a machine can replicate your writing style because it could identify certain patterns, words, sentence structure, etc then as long as it’s not pretending to create things attributed to you, there’s no issue.

An AI doesn't create works on its own. A human instructs AI to do so. Attribution is also irrelevant. If a human uses AI to recreate the exact tone, structure and other nuances of say, some best selling author, they harm the marketability of the original works which fails fair use tests (at least in the US).

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

Your very first statement calling my basis for my argument incorrect is incorrect lol.

LLMs “learn” things from the content they consume. They don’t just take the content in wholesale and keep it there to regurgitate on command.

On your last part, unless someone uses AI to recreate the tone etc of a best selling author and then markets their book/writing as being from said best selling author, and doesn’t use trademarked characters etc, there’s no issue. You can’t copyright a style of writing.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

If what you are saying is true, why were these ‘AI’s” incapable of rendering a full wine glass? It ‘knows’ the concept of a full glass of water, but because of humanities social pressures, a full wine glass being the epitome of gluttony, art work did not depict a full wine glass, no matter how ai prompters demanded, it was unable to link the concepts until it was literally created for it to regurgitate it out. It seems ‘AI’ doesn’t really learn, but regurgitates art out in collages of taken assets, smoothed over at the seams.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

“it was unable to link the concepts until it was literally created for it to regurgitate it out“

-WraithGear

The’ problem was solved before their patch. But the article just said that the model is changed by running it through a post check. Just like what deep seek does. It does not talk about the fundamental flaw in how it creates, they assert if does, like they always did

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

I don't see what distinction you're trying to draw here. It previously had trouble generating full glasses of wine, they made some changes, now it can. As a result, AIs are capable of generating an image of a full wine glass.

This is just another goalpost that's been blown past, like the "AI will never be able to draw hands correctly" thing that was so popular back in the day. Now AIs are quite good at drawing hands, and so new "but they can't do X!" Standards have been invented. I see no fundamental reason why any of those standards won't ultimately be surpassed.

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