AphoticDev

You know, I would really like to try this.

You’ve been waiting to post that on something for awhile, haven’t you?

ISPs in France, sure. They would have to convince ISPs elsewhere in the world to do it, and it wouldn’t be a popular move if ISPs start letting foreign governments censor stuff. Would the ISPs decide the bad press is worth making the French government happy, is the question.

Why do they need to petition it? Mozilla is an American corporation, if they just ignore it, can France do anything punitive to them?

Of course you did, we all had a grunge period early on.

Yes, they probably would, so long as the work is transformative enough. You wouldn’t be the first, or last, author to copy LoTR in their own works.

This is why you can go on Instagram and find people selling presets that give photos the look of a famous photographer. They advertise them as such. But even though they are trying to sell something that supposedly allows you to copy the style of someone else, it’s still legal, because it’s transformative enough.

It doesn’t have to make sense, and we don’t have to agree with it, but that’s how the law works.

Except that isn’t exactly how neural networks learn. They aren’t exactly copying work, they’re learning patterns in how humans make those works in order to imitate them. The legal argument these companies are making is that the results from using AI are transformative enough that they qualify as totally new and unique works, and it looks as if that might end up becoming law, depending on how the lawsuits currently going through the courts turn out.

To be clear, technically an LLM doesn’t copy any of the data, nor does it store any data from the works it learns from.

Oh, only a $100 billion? Wow what poors, guess they’re fucked.