"Runway", an AI Video Generator, Was Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
"Runway", an AI Video Generator, Was Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
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AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
I'm starting to think commercial AI should be banned. if the only way to make useful models is by ingesting human culture, then all humans should benefit from it without having to pay to have that culture shat back out in response to a prompt.
Im starting to agree with that premise. Since these models only exist using the public's data they should be public models only. No commercial use.
The “issue” is that this logic applies to all human creations as well.
i disagree. IP laws have more or less handled humans stealing ideas from humans for commercial gain. not perfectly by any means... but both the scale an impunity and frankly the entitlement exhibited by these GenAI companies is on another level.
no matter how many times people make the argument that AIs are just "doing what humans do", it fails to sway me. an AI copying, ingesting and tokenizing other people's intellectual property is nothing like a human watching a video or hearing a song and creating something based upon or derived from it. a database backed algorithm does nothing even remotely like a human mind. it's using software to process and regurgitate the works of others, and that is pretty plainly IP theft.
Sure, but the argument isn't "should we ban work that is based on the study of past cultural creation" it's "we should prevent computational/corporate exploitation of past cultural creation in order to protect the interests of humans."
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I think the alternative: copyright should be looser. It usually only benefits corporations and lawyers.
Though it would be naive to consider AI companies and ally in a goal to reduce copyright terms.
Same can be said of commercial Schools, Colleges, and Universities.