[HN Gopher] ChatGPT is not 'artificial intelligence.' It's theft
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       ChatGPT is not 'artificial intelligence.' It's theft
        
       Author : toss1
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2023-05-16 22:00 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | uvnq wrote:
       | Using this logic, every writer who has learned to read and write
       | by reading books, or every artist who improved their craft by
       | studying works, or every musician who learned the piano by
       | practicing pieces, is also "stealing" in whatever they
       | "originally" create due to learning via pattern recognition "tiny
       | pieces of every work" in their data set. It's ridiculous to
       | compare agents that generalize well to "stealing" pieces of the
       | works they used to learn the generalizations. Obviously if an
       | artist memorizes a painting in their data set and reproduces it,
       | or an AI spits out the exact image instead of original works
       | based on what it has learned, then that is theft. But
       | generalization is not theft. At least in my view. To assume
       | otherwise leads to some very dysfunctional logical conclusions
        
       | aussiegreenie wrote:
       | Poor artist borrow, great artist steal.
        
       | belter wrote:
       | We need an "Atlas Shrugged" scenario against AI.
        
       | kevviiinn wrote:
       | It doesn't chop text content into bits and reproduce it, that's
       | absurd. It's a text prediction engine, it predicts what tokens
       | come next based on some context
        
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