Open up access for machines, but keep human access closed off?
In the age of sloppification, you’d think the correct move would be to preserve signal-to-noise ratio, by opening up human access — for read and write.
I hate these arguments that are like “We need to be the ones to ruin everything, cuz otherwise the e n e m y might ruin everything!”
no they’re saying to open access for everybody, loosen up copyright law in general. the reasoning is fucking stupid but thats why politicians might actually listen to it
I think Anna’s Archives point is mainly that given other jurisdictions don’t care about copyright when it comes to training their LLMs, it’s a major and critical disadvantage for countries that do care about copyright for training purposes.
Given they are trying to get political change, it’s likely they think it’s harder to change the status quo for regular people than it is to change it for AI companies. They are still trying get the copyright duration down to 20 years.
A more cynical take would be that Anna’s Archive wants to be able to make money from companies by giving them access to their archive. Maybe they already have a monetary agreement with companies overseas, and want to do the same in the USA.
What a wild take.
Open up access for machines, but keep human access closed off?
In the age of sloppification, you’d think the correct move would be to preserve signal-to-noise ratio, by opening up human access — for read and write.
I hate these arguments that are like “We need to be the ones to ruin everything, cuz otherwise the e n e m y might ruin everything!”
no they’re saying to open access for everybody, loosen up copyright law in general. the reasoning is fucking stupid but thats why politicians might actually listen to it
I think Anna’s Archives point is mainly that given other jurisdictions don’t care about copyright when it comes to training their LLMs, it’s a major and critical disadvantage for countries that do care about copyright for training purposes.
Given they are trying to get political change, it’s likely they think it’s harder to change the status quo for regular people than it is to change it for AI companies. They are still trying get the copyright duration down to 20 years.
A more cynical take would be that Anna’s Archive wants to be able to make money from companies by giving them access to their archive. Maybe they already have a monetary agreement with companies overseas, and want to do the same in the USA.
Uh, they already train on copyrighted material. This whole “overseas” bogeyman is a misnomer, the boogeyman is domestic.
Copyright being more than 10y is a travesty.