Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here's what to know.
Absolutely no one innovates like Meta when it comes to new and exciting ways to garner bad publicity. Buying a book publisher to train AI data on its works. Is Operation: Kick Puppies next?
AI models are expected to run out of high-quality data by 2026, at which point there are plans to train on “synthetic” data created by AI instead of humans. #GarbageInGarbageOut — https://www.nytimes.com/...
Controversial opinion: if a company is so big they can just budget for consequences, then they are effectively immune to those consequences and must be stopped as a matter of course. [embedded post]
meta had these same sorts of discussions, including the idea of acquiring the publisher Simon and Schuster to scan their vast catalog of books But they all are thinking the same: doing the many, many deals this would require to not upset copyright holders would take too long. [im…