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OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free (futurism.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not provide AI systems that meet the needs of today's citizens."

exactly which “needs” are they trying to meet?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

shareholders' needs, like greater valuation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah it’s right up there on the list of what shareholders need to survive:

Water

Food

Solid CAGR of investment portfolio

Shelter

Human contact

Etc

(CAGR being Compound Annual Growth Rate)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

The needs of corpo CEOs trying to cut jobs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Their internal monetary needs ofc!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Sounds awesome, let's lobby for shorter copyrights! ~30 years feels more than reasonable.