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Come on man. This is exactly what we have been saying all the time. These "AIs" are not creating novel text or ideas. They are just regurgitating back the text they get in similar contexts. It's just they don't repeat things vebatim because they use statistics to predict the next word. And guess what, that's plagiarism by any real world standard you pick, no matter what tech scammers keep saying. The fact that laws haven't catched up doesn't change the reality of mass plagiarism we are seeing ...
And people like you keep insisting that "AIs" are stealing ideas, not verbatim copies of the words like that makes it ok. Except LLMs have no concept of ideas, and you people keep repeating that even when shown evidence, like this post, that they don't think. And even if they did, repeat with me, this is still plagiarism even if this was done by a human. Stop excusing the big tech companies man
no, it's not.
Look man. If I go and read the linux kernel code (for example), and then go and program my own closed source kernel (assuming I was good enough for that lol), and then my kernel becomes popular (it's ok to dream right?) then any lawyer worth it's salary will sue me because my beatifull kernel is not a clean room implementation. In practice it's almost impossible to prove, unless I go and tell everyone I was reading the linux kernel hahaha. But for LLMs there is nothing to prove, they did "read" the code (or rarther are indexing the code ...). So yes dude, this would be plagiarism for a human too.
plagiarism is an academic "crime". you couldn't simply cite your sources and aleviate accusations of copyright infringement, but you could with plagiarism. plagiarism is a total nonissue to me, even in the academy. there are much bigger things to worry about than the citations page.
what you're talking about is copyright infringement.
Lol, ok dude. Then they are rampant copyright infringement machines dude ... Nice argument lol
litigate it.
it's fair use
I'm pretty sure you are just trolling. But if you really want to learn about the topic go read what fair use is and isn't, or ask a lawyer. Fair use is much, much limited than you people think it is. Even memes and gameplay videos fall short of fair use most of the time, it's just that everyone looks the other way. This shows that copyright laws are a mess hahaha, but that's another topic.
calling me a troll doesn't change whether what i've said is true. my position has remained consistent the entire time, while you have continually ceded ground.
saying "go read" is not evidence. i know exactly what fair use is, and i'm telling you that LLM's use is fair use.
holy fuck that’s a lot of debatebro “arguments” by volume, let me do the thread a favor and trim you out of it
Enjoy your echo chamber I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what a garbage instance
First of all man, chill lol. Second of all, nice way to project here, I'm saying that the "AIs" are overhyped, and they are being used to justify rampant plagiarism by Microsoft (OpenAI), Google, Meta and the like. This is not the same as me saying the technology is useless, though hobestly I only use LLMs for autocomplete when coding, and even then is meh.
And third dude, what makes you think we have to prove to you that AI is dumb? Way to shift the burden of proof lol. You are the ones saying that LLMs, which look nothing like a human brain at all, are somehow another way to solve the hard problem of mind hahahaha. Come on man, you are the ones that need to provide proof if you are going to make such wild claim. Your entire post is "you can't prove that LLMs don't think". And yeah, I can't prove a negative. Doesn't mean you are right though.
slightly more certain of my earlier guess now