Wolfram Ravenwolf@WolframRvnwlfJanuary 24, 2025
Totally agree that we haven't started to grapple with the copyright implications of LLM training. And we will have to, at some point.
I just re-read my notes from watching the Eldred v. Ashcroft oral argument, in person, in 2002.
> "I would, personally, have liked to hear the Justices ask some more questions about how the "regime" that this law is part of changes in the context of the Internet, but perhaps we'll have to wait another generation
before we're all ready for that."
I don't think we ever got the full evaluation of copyright law for the Internet era that I was hoping for. And now there's a new era dawning!
Wolfram Ravenwolf@WolframRvnwlfYeah, and just like we'll have to address the question of how to live in a post-labor world, so do we have to discuss a post-copyright era. AI's benefit takes precedence over copyright, but such AI needs to be open and free. If it's paid, they should license what they used, too.
Side note, whenever I look for that link to re-read or to send to someone, I just Google for "Eldred Kwindla".
When I did that just now, the first result was from @simonw's blog. I follow Simon here for his indispensable notes and writings about LLMs.…