2024-04-07
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]
New York Times
Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …
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]
New York Times
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.