Ask HN: Would open-source devs accept financial compensation for AI training?

2 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by i-con

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2 Comments

dtagames

7 hours ago

There is already legal precedent in the US that LLM training is a version of reading/studying akin to what people do, is not a form of wholesale duplication, and involves a great deal of transformation at significant effort and expense.

So the copyright ship has sailed. Current lawsuits are about how copies were obtained or how materials produced by an LLM are themselves infringing. But training? That's all open and legal already.

i-con

7 hours ago

Thanks! would be interesting to know how this is in other countries.

I don't think an implementation has to be about copyright infringement by the training itself, though. Like you say, it can also be about materials produced. And my question is really if people would like it, not how feasible it is to implement.