alt Hacker NewsWe're having to rediscover in real time the extremely hard way, why enabling mass theft is so incredibly damaging to society. This is literally why we need a functional copyright system
If theft becomes more profitable than genuine creation, then nobody will create anything. Then there's nothing to steal, at which point all progress collapses
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Nobody owns math and it is ridiculous to suggest someone should.
> why enabling mass theft is so incredibly damaging to society. This is literally why we need a functional copyright system
What is interesting is that LLM's do not directly violate copyright. The settlements we have seen are for how the works were acquired (that was a copyright violation) not the use of the works.
The vectors of a book, or a paper, are not the paper. They are, for all intents, facts about the work itself, and more generally writing. You can not copyright a fact.
It also means that the weights, the things that (mostly) matter can not be copyrighted either.
This is literally why we need a functional copyright system
To block progress. Got it.
What theft? LLM output has never been copyrightable.