“AI #44: Copyright Confrontation” by Zvi

The New York Times has thrown down the gauntlet, suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Others are complaining about recreated images in the otherwise deeply awesome MidJourney v6.0. As is usually the case, the critics misunderstand the technology involved, complain about infringements that inflict no substantial damages, engineer many of the complaints being made and make cringeworthy accusations.

That does not, however, mean that The New York Times case is baseless. There are still very real copyright issues at the heart of Generative AI. This suit is a serious effort by top lawyers. It has strong legal merit. They are likely to win if the case is not settled.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Table of Contents.
3. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Entrepreneurial advice.
4. GPT-4 Real This Time. What will we get in the coming year?
5. Fun With Image Generation. MidJourney [...]

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Outline:

(00:53) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(07:40) GPT-4 Real This Time

(10:35) Fun with Image Generation

(17:58) Copyright Confrontation

(29:55) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(35:00) Going Nuclear

(36:39) In Other AI News

(37:54) Quiet Speculations

(43:40) The UN Reports

(44:14) Guiding Principles

(51:39) The Week in Audio

(52:25) Rhetorical Innovation

(56:09) AI With Open Model Weights Is Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:03:16) Aligning a Human Level Intelligence is Still Difficult

(01:06:25) Please Speak Directly Into the Microphone

(01:06:39) The Wit and Wisdom of Sam Altman

(01:19:05) The Lighter Side

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First published:
December 28th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3GzRrqLAcdDXzbqc4/ai-44-copyright-confrontation

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