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>>ssgodd+(OP)
I hope this results in Fair Use being expanded to cover AI training. This is way more important to humanity's future than any single media outlet. If the NYT goes under, a dozen similar outlets can replace them overnight. If we lose AI to stupid IP battles in its infancy, we end up handicapping probably the single most important development in human history just to protect some ancient newspaper. Then another country is going to do it anyway, and still the NYT is going to get eaten.

>>solard+Aj
"probably the single most important development in human history" is the kind of hyperbole you'd only find here. Better than medicine, agriculture, electrification, or music? That point of view simply does not jive with what I see so far from AI. It has had little impact beyond filling the internet with low-effort content.

I feel like the crypto evangelists never got off the hype train. They just picked a new destination. I hope the NYT is compensated for the theft of their IP and hopefully more lawsuits follow.

>>ngetch+1p
> Better than medicine, agriculture, electrification, or music?

Shoulders of giants.

Thanks to the existence of medicine, agriculture, and electrification (we can argue about music), some people are now healthy, well fed, and sufficiently supplied with enough electricity to go make LLMs.

> I hope the NYT is compensated for the theft of their IP and hopefully more lawsuits follow.

Personally I think all these "theft of IP" lawsuits are (mostly) destined to fail. Not because I'm on a particular side per-se (though I am), but because it's trying to fit a square law into a round hole.

This is going to be a job for legislature sooner or later.