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AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data (arstechnica.com)

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AI and legal experts told the FT this “memorization” ability could have serious ramifications on AI groups’ battle against dozens of copyright lawsuits around the world, as it undermines their core defense that LLMs “learn” from copyrighted works but do not store copies.

Sam Altman would like to remind you each Old Lady at a Library consume 284 cubic feet of Oxygen a day from the air.

Also, hey at least they made sure to probably destroy the physical copy they ripped into their hopelessly fragmented CorpoNapster fever dream, the law is the law.

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[-] yellowbadbeast 5 points 6 days ago

RNG is not an inherent property of a transformer model. You can make it deterministic if you really want to.

You can't convert it back into anything remotely resembling human-readable text without inference and a whole lot of matrix multiplication.

Could you not make a similar argument about a zip file or any other compression format?

[-] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

No. A .zip file is designed to be eventually decompressed. A .safetensors file is in its final form (which is already compressed somehow... I think).

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

A .safetensors file is in its final form (which is already compressed somehow... I think).

Then why do people need to interact with it further to extract information?

[-] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

You still have to press "play" on an mp3. AI models just require vastly more steps in order to be useful.

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