Stuart LangridgeJul 10, 2023

“forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected… [disclosing sources leaves us] open to legal challenges.”

Looking forward to new defences in court saying if they’re forced to explain exactly where they got this car boot stall full of nappies and DVDs from, they’ll be subject to “legal challenges”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737116/openai-ai-regulation-eu-ai-act-cease-operating

OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company could pull its services from the EU if it finds upcoming regulations too onerous. The EU AI Act is currently being finalized by lawmakers and should become law next year.

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Show threadStuart LangridgeJul 10, 2023
Like, how is this OK? How is it OK to say "yeah, we did crimes, and if you force us to say what we did, we'll have to say we did crimes", and then nothing else happens? This is like politicians saying "yeah, I did coke, what are you going to do about it" while all around them people are going to prison for the same thing that famous people and big companies can just laugh off.
Show threadJohn Colagioia

@sil It shows that they had literally no plan, going into this. They just hoped that either nobody would notice or that they would make so much money that they could buy off the relevant lawmakers.

Granted, it's not as bad as Uber's "we're going to operate here, because we don't really care what the law says" approach.

Jul 10, 2023 at 10:49pmWeb