Apparently, stealing other people’s work to create product for money is now “fair use” as according to OpenAI because they are “innovating” (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?
“Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression—including blogposts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents—it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials,” wrote OpenAI in the House of Lords submission.
OpenAI claimed that the authors in that lawsuit “misconceive[d] the scope of copyright, failing to take into account the limitations and exceptions (including fair use) that properly leave room for innovations like the large language models now at the forefront of artificial intelligence.”
Yet it still is an incredible force multiplier for the ones that can leverage it effectively.
Yea you have to know how to code and proper coding standards to know what parts are garbage to change or not use, but for those who can it gives a significant competitive advantage.
Something like Tabby providing code autocomplete will set developers who can overcome its flaws apart.
I believe the same thing will happen with creative jobs. Artists who can leverage ai to make deeper and more complex works will leave ones who can’t in the dust.
And the whole copyright angle is a red herring made by already rich people who want to fight over money. Once people get used to the technology and start to understand how it can enhance their work, instead of replacing them, all of this moral panic over liberal arts graduates will die down.
Because honestly? The starving artist was always a trope, and the only money that will exchange hands here will be between the elites who certainly don’t need more.