alt Hacker NewsThe effort of humans who had to toil through training models belongs to everyone? Do they no longer have any ownership over their hard work?
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They got paid. That’s what the money was for. It’s the investors who backed these foundational model companies who will hold the bag as more open source models come along and consume more market share.
Some consider copyright to be unethical. "Information wants to be free".
Paying them may now be impossible. There might be some legal settlements still.
Preventing a handful of massive companies from continuing to be the only ones able to make money off that, not only unimpeded but with overt or covert state assistance (regulatory capture, ownership, whatever), at least puts an end to the worst of the abuse.
If we have broken the idea of copyright, and we do indeed appear to have broken the idea of copyright, why should trillion dollar companies owned and controlled by strange or psychopathic weirdos and their circle of investors be the only ones benefiting? Why do Sam and Dario or the US government get to decide when and for whom the tap is turned on?
Not too mention the unbelievable cost of actually doing all that training.
Are the going to pay for the societal harms they cause?
A drop in the bucket compared to the value of the collective human work that was stolen to train it.
edit: come to think about it I think the ratio of one drop to one bucket is vastly over estimating the ratio of the trainer's effort.