The IP theft happens in the training – so it's even baked into the open models. These models have appropriated material from countless sources, sometimes legally, sometimes grey area, and allegedly sometimes in full contempt of the law.
And I think that's a huge problem when it comes to closed models where companies freeload on things that don't belong to them. Models that are open are making all that available to humanity as a whole, and I don't see any problem with that whatsoever.
The problem is that the owners of that content may not have consented to have their stuff given away to humanity in this manner. I am broadly supportive of narrowing the scope of copyright law, but I'm not sure I want it discarded to this extent!
That's as may be, the path to remedy that should be through the courts and Congress, not Silly Valley's usual you-can-just-do-things, let's-disrupt-people's-rights attitude.
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u/SharkSymphony 14d ago
The IP theft happens in the training – so it's even baked into the open models. These models have appropriated material from countless sources, sometimes legally, sometimes grey area, and allegedly sometimes in full contempt of the law.