alt Hacker NewsNo - distillation is not data inputs.
Raw materials vs. Value add.
They are different things, like ore and metal.
Distillation is a new thing we need to understand, it's probably closer to IP than not.
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sho_hn • yesterday at 8:19 PM
Are you suggesting data input is further from IP than distillation?
That would stun me, but it's a little hard to read.
dijksterhuis • yesterday at 8:41 PM
distillation has been around for 12 years. it's not new in terms of ML techniques.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531
although i doubt there has been a legal case over it yet in the context of the legality of stealing shit but IANAL.
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mkehrt • yesterday at 8:31 PM
Do you think writing books (and Wikipedia articles, and stack overflow articles, and github repos, and, and, and, and ...) is not a value add?? What terrible claim.
The "data inputs" were also, very much, somebody's "value added" IP.
We're talking about things like text people wrote, not some kind of raw data floating out in the ether.