Meta was recently sued for copyright infringement for training its “AI” (LLM) Llama with copyrighted works that it had expressed interest in licensing, but chose not to. The Judge ruled in favor of trillion-dollar company Meta and against book authors, citing Fair Use. This is particularly interesting to us given the recent Bloomberg DMCA aggression against GamersNexus and our own experiences with Fair Use, so we dug into it to learn more.
Even more broadly, you’re seeing regulatory capture. Money gets whatever rules it wants.
Funnily enough I’ve been watching through Dark Matter and Alien: Earth and last night after watching an episode of each back to back realized that we’re probably not far off from being directly ruled by corporations after all our governments fall, which is a central theme in each show.
You get my kudos for mentioning Dark Matter. Damn the show was good while it lasted.
I don’t think our governments are going to fall. I do think they are however extensions of corporations and over time are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from business.
How you enjoying After: Earth? I’m finding myself being less interested with every new episode.
The same.
Foundation has been the opposite though. Each episode is getting better and better.
foundation
It’s based on the books though, isnt it? Is it as cringe?
I haven’t read the books, but from what I understand, fans of the books generally don’t care for the show because they think they changed too much. I think season 2 was a little slow but 1 and 3 have been great.
I’ll give it another try once I forget most of the book, otherwise it’s hard not to compare. I loved the books so anything different is hard to digest.
I haven’t delved too deeply into the criticism so far all I know it could be baseless “internet complaints” like The Last of Us where people were upset that the girl playing the teenage character “wasn’t attractive enough.”
Oh i might check it out, then
Thats one word for it.
- Profit!
This is why obeyong laws on purpose makes you a boot licker.
Don’t lick boot unless you or your partner is sexually gratified by the act.
This is great news for us! If you ever get pulled up for pirating things, just say you’re using them to train an LLM and it’s legal!
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This definitely will not work unless it does. But it probably won’t.)
Thats just the first round of IP law vs AI Corpos. I’m really interested if this process will fix the broken copyright system or fix the AI Corpos - one of the two has to give.
It will just create exceptions for the massively rich.
Honestly as sad as it sounds I just think that they continue to treat huge corporations differently than individuals…
Oh I think huge corporations should definitely be treated differently.
Maybe, but definitely not more lax 😅
Exactly.
See Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
https://archive.org/details/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-part-one-1992-uk-vhs at 54:55
