I’d hoped by now we’d see some substantial, effective legal challenges to existing LLMs’ reliance on stolen IP. In December we learned that Apple was seeking licensing deals with news publishers…and in June they announced their OpenAI partnership.
So long as vendors and end users have no serious legal exposure, there’s no market for ethical LLMs. That’s a real condemnation of the U.S. IP regime and legal system.
@waldoj I remember rueing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._Rural_Telephone_Service_Co.
because I'd get 15 or so phony phone books a year but it also made clear you could build large knowledge bases by information extraction for a system like Cyc... If you could get information extraction to work for a system like Cyc
@waldoj there are serious copyright lawsuits as I see it
@paulalanlevy Not serious enough for government and major corporations to exhibit caution, at least that I’ve observed. But I’m glad that you regard them as serious! Here’s hoping folks in power will adopt your view.