My point is that xai is making the case for AI regulation for us.
Ha, regulation? With what governing body? Congress is hopeless, because apathy has griped a majority of the voting public, and there’s still a large portion of morons who thought MAGA was a good idea.
So, are we saying we’re still going to be happy with a system that you can bypass with “ignore all previous instructions” or some stupid magic phrase like that?
Nobody is bitching about photoshopping, a thing that exists and almost anybody can do to put some person’s face on a naked body or whatever situation they want. It’s existed for decades. Suddenly, journalists are inventing a new moral panic with LLMs, saying they can do whatever they want with pictures, despite the fact that this technology already existed, it’s just a little bit easier now. It’s not a new problem, so reporting on it is just shifting the blame to a new boogeyman.
See, the magic formula is to slap the word “AI” on a headline and boom, instant attention! It doesn’t matter what it’s about, if it’s a new problem, if it’s only slightly related to the main root cause… As long as you’re talking shit about every angle around AI in the most extreme ways possible, mission accomplished. It is outrage reporting because there is no solutioning or historical context. The sole purpose is the outrage, because outrages generates clicks. It’s too hard for journalists to think outside the outrage box.
These people and journalists don’t see to remember celebrity photoshops. Or maybe they do and want to continue to feed the outrage machine.
Pardon me if I duck out of my Two Minutes Hate for today.
LLM liability is not exactly cut-and-dry, either. It doesn’t really matter how many rules you put on LLMs to not do something, people will find a way to break it to do the thing it said it wasn’t going to do. For fuck’s sake, have we really forgotten the lessons of Asimov’s I, Robot short stories? Almost every one of them was about how the “unbreakable” three laws were very breakable thing, because absolute laws don’t make sense in every context. (While I hate using AI fiction with LLM comparisons, this one fits.)
Ultimately, it’s the person’s responsibility for telling it to do a thing, and getting the thing it was told to get. LLMs are a tool, nothing more. If somebody buys a hammer, and misuses that hammer by bashing somebody’s brains in, we arrest the person who committed murder. If there’s some security hole on a website that a hacker used to steal data, depending on how negligent the company is, there is some liability with that company not providing enough protections against their data. But, the hacker 100% broke the law, and would get convicted, if caught.
Regardless of all of that, LLMs aren’t fucking sentient and these dumbass journalists need to stop personifying them.
And this is how we end up with the Hitler rage scene in Downfall. Everybody around him lies and paint rosy pictures of the warfront, until reality comes crashing down around them.
You wouldn’t even notice it unless it’s pointed out and you see the real world place they filmed vs what they made it look like with CGI in the film.
That’s my point. If it’s invisible, it’s done its job.
Download all existing literature to build a library for preservation and you’re called a pirate.
Said library contains petabytes of the exact text of each and every piece of literature.
Download all existing literature from aforementioned library to train an LLM and you’re a tech innovator.
Said model contains gigabytes of a bunch of weights that can never go back to the exact words of the book.
What a strange world we live in.
It’s not strange at all. It’s degrees of compression. You compress a JPEG to the point that it’s unrecognizable, and it’s no longer breaking copyright. It’s essentially like trying to write a book you just read based on memory.
This is a deliberate oversimplification to try to excuse derivative and copied works of artists who have had their art stolen.
It’s not. You misunderstand both copyright law and how LLMs work.
Models are GBs of weights, typically in the 4GB to 24GB range. LLMs do not look at a picture and then copy that picture into the model. There’s not enough disk space to do something like that. It’s used for training, adjusting weights here and there, based on how the image links to the description. You can’t just say “recreate the Mona Lisa” and have it give you a pixel perfect copy of the original.
When you do it, it’s copyright infringement.
It’s not copyright infringement to copy a style. People do it all the time. You wouldn’t believe the amount of times I’ve seen something that I thought was some unique style, and thought that one artist did it, but it turns out it’s just another copycat artist “inspired by” the more popular artist.
Because that’s what people do to something unique, or even remotely rare: Copy it a thousands times and drive it into the ground until you’re fucking sick of it.
If looking at a picture is stealing, then I’m doing so every day when I browse a web page or Google Image Search.
Energy needs are a concern, but it was never a new problem. Our energy needs have been ramping up ever since we learned how to make electricity.
The ones who “contribute to human culture” are the 1% who are lucky enough to make a career out of making art or making music or whatever other creative talent they had. The problem is oversaturation, not AI. AI makes the problem worse, but so does the Internet and every other technological leap we’ve seen.
“Once it runs out of new content to plagiarize it will be unable to produce anything new.” Sounds like humans in a nutshell. Good artists borrow, great artists steal. Creativity itself is not sustainable at the rate we consume it. Every new thing is drilled into the ground, and beaten into a bloody pulp, until we find the next new thing. This is not a new problem.
Capitalism is the enemy of humanity. Capitalists wield AI as a weapon, and we treat it as a scapegoat. We think that we can just get rid of AI, and then the enemy is gone. But, AI isn’t going away, and the same enemy we’ve always had still exists.
Use it to your advantage. Use local models. Support open source LLMs. The biggest failure of rich capitalist assholes is sheer, absolute overconfidence and an inability to relate to the people they are trying to fleece.
I think we, as a society, need to do a better job separating out the real issue. The real issue isn’t AI. The issue is laziness. It’s the “slop” part, not the “AI” part.
This is just CGI arguments all over again. People fucking hated CGI back in the 90s and 2000s. They hated how it was a crutch for VFX, hated how people wouldn’t bother hiring an animal to put into a simple scene, but they’d spend $10K to make a CGI sheep for a few seconds. Practical effects were suddenly novel. People praised Mad Max: Fury Road for its practical effects, but completely ignored the fact that Fury Road very much had CGI effects throughout.
And that’s the secret: people stopped talking about CGI when it became invisible. If you can’t tell it’s CGI, then CGI has done its job. If you can’t tell it’s AI, then AI has done its job.
But, quite often, you can tell it’s AI, because lazy hacks pretend it’s supposed to replace things that it’s not made for. They spend five minutes trying to generate something, and call it “good enough”. The creative art/video models are getting there, but they aren’t there yet. It still requires a ton of work to get certain styles out of the uncanny valley, and inpainting isn’t perfect. Voice models are okay, and better than the old TTS ones, but they don’t know how to act out a scene well enough. 3D modeling might get somewhere, but it shouldn’t be used for primary characters.
This hype train needs to crash into a brick wall, so that we can use it in a more reserved manner. Some companies are quietly doing so, but that’s not what pushes the headlines.
But, did he really win?
Further proof that copyrights, like patents, only benefit the rich.
Also, AI-generated material still falls into the monkey selfie legal realm, so they are going to have a helluva time trying to copyright what comes out.
Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one
No, they wouldn’t. Those are the types of clickbait garbage headlines you use already.
Funny, that seems to be the correct answer to the headline.