The NYT doesn’t want OpenAI training AI models with its articles.

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.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      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.