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Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How can you tell that our thoughts don't come from a biological LLM? Maybe what we conceive as "understanding" is just a feeling emerging from a more fondamental mechanism like temperature emerges from the movement of particles.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Because we have biological, developmental, and psychological science telling us that's not how higher-level thinking works. Human brains have the ability to function on a sort of autopilot similar to "AI", but that is not what we are describing when we speak of creative substance.