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- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- technews@radiation.party
The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler::The New York Times has officially blocked GPTBot, OpenAI’s web crawler. The outlet’s robot.txt page specifically disallows GPTBot, preventing OpenAI from scraping content from its website to train AI models.
This goes against everything that the NYT preaches in terms of saying that the press is under attack and needs to be protected. AI consumption of news content makes the news more accessible. Their paid articles don’t overlap with what ChatGPT is doing. This is really a bunch of old people getting butt hurt about tech they don’t fully understand.
While I am no fan of the NYT and other news site’s pricing models, I don’t think that this goes against “protecting the press”. Journalists do a job. They research, compile, draft, and write articles in their own voice (or the voice of the news outlet). They are paid for this work. OpenAI wants to scrape the words off news sites so that their language model can regurgitate them for free.
This is the AI Art thing all over again. Creators should be paid for their work.
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Maybe you are not thinking about the capabilities of AI fully there are ones that are enriched with recent data, so your can ask it about recent events. Also, I do ask it about historical information, so it is nice to have that available.
Please don’t tell me you get your news from LLMs.
If journalists and their platforms do not get paid their articles won’t get written. So no, the free absorbtion of professional articles into a LLM that uses the article to answer a Pokemon question online in 6 months is not making “news” more “accesible”.
It’s moreso an archive of historical knowledge. Thinking it just answers Pokémon questions is shortsighted.
If you claim to fully understand machine learning technology, you should also understand why it’s considered theft by many. Everything that a generative AI churns out is ultimately derived from human works. Some of it is legally unencumbered, but much of it is protected by copyright and integrated into an AI model without the author’s permission or knowledge, and reused without attribution.
I have no love for the NYT, but in this, they’re right.
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Everything anyone churns out is ultimately derived from human works. I know that 2+2 = 4 because my teacher taught me that. I can read Hegel and understand it because both he and I read Kant. The corpus of work created by humanity collectively builds on itself.
When you listen to a song on the radio, there has been an infinitely long chain of influence that goes back hundreds of years.
Everytjing is built on everything else. AI isn’t fundamentally different. It’s just done automatically by a mathematical model.
In my opinion instead of trying to prevent this technology like a neo-luddite we need to be looking at new models for our creators to survive. I’m a big fan of the Patreon model. We don’t have to use Patreon of course (and we shouldn’t)
But imagine a world where all content is free and people with money choose to support the creators they enjoy. Even a dollar or two when done en masse would be enough to sustain someone’s lifestyle and reliably reward them for work.
We need to think forward and not act like conservatives. This technology isn’t going away. It’s simply going to accelerate and break a lot of things while it picks up speed.