I think I might be missing some context here. Granted without context I'm pretty sure that strawman is still the right word.
ShakingMyHead
Pretty sure that's a strawman.
Kind of like saying that humans are car-driving machines because we drive cars.
LLMs and humans are both sentence-producing machines, but they were shaped by different processes to do different work
Except not really. We're not sentence-producing machines, we're "machines" (so to speak) that can produce sentences. Not the same thing.
Once this is in place, they say, nations must be prepared to enforce these restrictions by bombing unregistered data centres, even if this risks nuclear war, “because datacenters can kill more people than nuclear weapons” (emphasis theirs).
So the plan is still to kill everyone to death to prevent GPT-~~5~~ ~~6~~ ~~7~~ ~~8~~ ...
OpenAI’s tools also lower the cost of entry, allowing more people to make creative content, he said.
So, even working under the assumption that this somehow works, they still needed two animation studios, professional writers, and 30 million to get this film off the ground.
According to the article, it could be higher than 1.5 billion, though by how much they don't really say. But they're estimating about $3000 per book. For a class action that actually seems extremely high.
Anthropic to pay 1.5 billion to authors
That's... quite a bit. I wonder if we'll start to see more complaints about people reaching their token limit "prematurely" or if Anthropic will release a $1000/month "unlimited" plan or something like that.
This was written in 2015.
Pretty sure I've heard similar things about AI "art" vs artists as well.