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>>ssgodd+(OP)
Even if they win against openAI, how would this prevent something like a Chinese or Russian LLM from “stealing” their content and making their own superior LLM that isnt weakened by regulation like the ones in the United States.

And I say this as someone that is extremely bothered by how easily mass amounts of open content can just be vacuumed up into a training set with reckless abandon and there isn’t much you can do other than put everything you create behind some kind of authentication wall but even then it’s only a matter of time until it leaks anyway.

Pandora’s box is really open, we need to figure out how to live in a world with these systems because it’s an un winnable arms race where only bad actors will benefit from everyone else being neutered by regulation. Especially with the massive pace of open source innovation in this space.

We’re in a “mutually assured destruction” situation now, but instead of bombs the weapon is information.

>>dissid+B6
SciHub was an early warning, IMHO, that there's a strong risk of the first world fumbling the ball so badly with IP that tech ecosystems start growing in the third world instead. The dominant platform for distributing scientific journal papers is no longer Western. Maybe SciHub is economically inconsequential, but LLM's certainly are not!

Imagine if California had banned Google spidering websites without consent, in the late 90's. On some backwards-looking, moralizing "intellectual property" theory, like the current one targeting LLM's. 2/3rd of modern Silicon Valley wouldn't exist today, and equivalent ecosystems would have instead grown up in, who knows where. Not-California.

We're all stupidly rich and we have forgotten why we're rich in the first place.