But is it really a problem if the AI is transmitting the information in its own words? And even if that is considered illegal, doesn’t it significantly diminish said crime?
AI doesnt transmit information in its own words. It has no “own” no “self”. It does what it was programmed to do, just like any other type of software. Turns out that some people using ai have made it ingest content without permission so they can resell it for profit. That should not be permitted. My property is not yours to take unless you agree to my terms. I did not give you permission to download my data, art, code or text, to ingest in a token database and then resell it in any shape or form derived or not. No ifs no buts. If you want it you have to pay for it or respect terms. The bulk of ai companies respect that. A handful of sociopaths dont. They are the issue.
I wouldn't call ANYONE disrespecting terms and conditions they may have agreed to a sociopath. Not everything in a contract is enforceable just because it's written there, whether or not both parties signed it. And unless it's spewing out copyrighted materials "verbatim" there is an argument to be made that the LLM learned to talk from an open source and inserted knowledge from a copyrighted one.
However this turns out for private AI, I hope at the very least it can be considered fair use. Monetized LLMs can be forced to pay up or follow terms but individuals should be able to pool together and create open source models. I'm not saying I have the exact legal arguments for why this would work but LLMs in their current forms need to exist.
I absolutely agree that LLMs should exist. Torrents still exist and have their purpose. Criminals always argued that their crime is not really a crime and found all kinds of arguments in favour of it. Similarity people developing ai that doesnt respect people’s property use all sorts of wild arguments in their favour - ai learns like a human, it benefits society, other countries will use it against us, and so on. That doesnt mean we should give into their demands to destroy society and people’s lives so they can have a competitive advantage over honest people. The fact that they want to steal, destroy entire industries they take from, and demolish norms so they can make their software appear intelligent, makes them sociopaths.
