The trained model is a work derived from masses of copywrite material. Distribution of that model is infringement, same as distributing copies of movies. Public access to that model is infringement, just as a public screening of a movie is.

People keep thinking it’s “the picture the AI drew” that’s the issue. They’re wrong. It’s the “AI” itself.

What do you think the trained model is other than a derived work?

Promotional images are still under copyright.

AI is creating an image based on someone else’s property. The difference is it’s owned by a corporation.

This isn’t the issue. The copyright infringement is the creation of the model using the copywrite work as training data.

All NYT is doing is demonstrating that the model must have been created using copywrite works, and hence infringement has taken place. They are not stating that the model is committing an infringement itself.

They are showing that the author of the tool has comitted massive copyright infringement in the process construction of the tool.

…unless they licensed all the copyright works they trained the model on. (Hint: they didn’t, and we know they didn’t because the copyright holders haven’t licensed their work for that purpose. )

It doesn’t matter if a company charges or not for anything. It’s not a factor in copyright law.

Copyleft is not public domain, and requires copyright law to function.

The article uses Midjourney. Nobody is tuning it.

Would have been a better joke without the “all”. Then the meaning is ambiguous.

If fair use is cut down…

It’s not a case of cutting down fair use. It’s a case 9f enforcing current fair use limits.

The choices here are to respect copyright or destroy it. Having and AI exception is nonsense.

"I’m not illegally downloading the latest blockbuster/ best seller / chart topping album. I’m scraping the internet for training data for my AI. It just so happens I need to filter the data by hand before it can injest it. I keep looking for suitable data, but haven’t identified any yet. "

There’s plenty of non copyright material out there to do research on. It won’t make for useful AI products, but they can start licensing for that.

…and then return it to his grieving wife?

Mainly because it’s shaped like a snow plow and won’t care if anything soft is in its way.

New name: “Y”

It’s not hard. He’s saying that this study makes no claims about effectiveness, but people are so programmed with the catchphrase “safe and effective” that they conflate the two.

Containers are the ultimate “works for me” in software development. My experience it makes for more fragile software that depends on its environment being perfect and nothing else will do.

I’ve noted over the past few years, how any company that invests in R&D rather than pays dividends is labelled as “loss making” by the press.

No, because I used the web before web search. It’s a convenient thing. Not a necessary thing.

i.e. where it all began

That annoys me so much. Especially when the randomly generated line noise password I’m using doesn’t happen to include one of the three punctuation characters they need to be “secure”.

The greatest threat is password databases being leaked from the services you use. Not your phone or laptop. Physical access to a device is a pretty high security bar.

If you don’t let people make notes of passwords they use one crap memorable password for everything. Let them store it, and advise them to do it somewhere encrypted. Ta da! Password manager.