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The lines between learning and copying are being blurred with AI. Imagine if you could replay a movie any time you like in your head just from watching it once. Current copyright law wasn’t written with that in mind. It’s going to be interesting how this goes.
Imagine being able to recall the important parts of a movie, it's overall feel, and significant themes and attributes after only watching it one time.
That's significantly closer to what current AI models do. It's not copyright infringement that there are significant chunks of some movies that I can play back in my head precisely. First because memory being owned by someone else is a horrifying thought, and second because it's not a distributable copy.
There has been an interesting counter-proposal to that: make all copies "non-distributable" by replacing the 1:1 copying, by AI:AI learning, so the new AI would never have a 1:1 copy of the original.
It's in part embodied in the concept of "perishable software", where instead of having a 1:1 copy of an OS installed on your smartphone/PC, a neural network hardware would "learn how to be a smartphone/PC".
Reinstalling, would mean "killing" the previous software, and training the device again.
Right, because the cool part of upgrading your phone is trying to make it feel like its your phone, from scratch. Perishable software is anything but desirable, unless you enjoy having the very air you breathe sold to you.
Well, depends on desirable "by whom".
Imagine being a phone manufacturer and having all your users running a black box only you have the means to re-flash or upgrade, with software developers having to go through you so you can train users' phones to "behave like they have the software installed"
It's a dictatorial phone manufacturer's wet dream.
Yes, that's exactly my problem with it.