>I find it grating that so many AI boosters try to frame pushing back against the AI industry as a sudden about-face for everyone that spent the last 20 years pushing back against the copyright industry.
What do you think the outcome of tightening fair use is going to be? Do you think its going to be most effectual against these big evil AI companies we are meant to fear? Or is it going to end up putting more individual creators on the end of Disneys pitchforks?
Like if you support creating a gun to kill a monster, that's great. But you need to understand that weapons rarely only target the person you want them to. And its unlikely that any bill that specifically targets a certain size or profit margin is going to make it all the way into law without being generalised to the approval of large IP holders.
Its much much (much) better to look at this as an opportunity to erode IP laws for everyone, than to make them worse and hope that your particular enemies are the only ones that are affected.
>That doesn’t mean I’m behind industrialized narcotic production on such a huge scale that it that it starts to distort the economy, and companies looking for new ways to add methamphetamine to every goddamn product.
Thats such a non sequitur. This isnt a weed legalisation argument, its "Do we make IP worse for everyone, because you dont like some people benefiting from fair use".
One could imagine a different legal standards for recreational, research, and commercial uses.
> One could imagine a different legal standards for recreational, research, and commercial uses.
Meta used allegedly stolen copyrighted materials to train a model they shared for free with the whole world. Is this a recreational use?
No it is not recreational use. And no, they are not freely sharing it. It is use to build a monopoly, make hones competition impossible and plan charge as much possible on it.
It is the same playbook everytime. We dont have to be naive and pretend meta is doing something for other peoples benefit.
>And no, they are not freely sharing it
Are you unable to access this page?
https://www.llama.com/llama-downloads/
Or this one?
https://lmstudio.ai/models/meta/llama-3.3-70b
>It is use to build a monopoly
How?
>We dont have to be naive and pretend meta is doing something for other peoples benefit.
Meta benefits from the current war of open model competition, but we also benefit from it. In particular, participating in all this makes it hard for them to pull the ladder up when the market changes. They will have to justify why whatever new hotness is better than these existing models already on our hard drives.