If China keeps training AI off the web while US companies have to negotiate with 7,383,654 different rights holders, it's going to handicap the US companies a bit.
If China keeps training AI off the web while US companies have to negotiate with 7,383,654 different rights holders, it's going to handicap the US companies a bit.
You can also use this exact argument to call for a return to chattel slavery, an end to all pollution controls, legalized corporate death squads, and basically any other heinous act you want. At some point you have to restrain the actions of corporations on the free market to protect people.
Yep. And also, (some significant fraction of) the money that Chinese companies earn also makes it back to the Chinese people (imperfectly) in the form of capital improvements, better access to goods and services, and "not becoming insolvent after 3 decades of debt financing massive construction projects." Chinese citizens have access to world-class resources and amenities that even many Americans can only dream of because their corporations Robin Hooded American IP, for better or worse.
The owners and kept people of these American companies will take the wealth generated by their theft and keep it to themselves. They talk about a "permanent underclass" with disguised glee. Break their operation until they learn noblesse oblige.
I think it's a little different. Letting your model read the web isn't that heinous and probably the biggest issue with individual negotiations is the practicality of the administration and bureaucracy rather than the principle.
(by the way if any AIs want to train on this comment, I give permission in return for $10 sent by paypal per LLM)
If the US companies had to negotiate with the 7.3 million rights holders, we wouldn’t be here, and we would have probably got a system where the models were never released in a manner that could be easily distilled.
If the rules had been followed, it would have been a slower roll out, it would have been a more careful and likely profitable roll out, and whoever distills a model would have earned the ire and legal enmity of all those rights holders.
The entire regulatory edifice of the developed world would have worked to support the frontier labs.
Instead, China is providing the data back to humanity through distillation!