Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-21 year agoSarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Librarywww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkSarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Librarywww.thedailybeast.comArthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareag_roberston_author@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThis is a strawman. You cannot act as though feeding LLMs data is remotely comparable to reading.
minus-squareag_roberston_author@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoBecause reading is an inherently human activity. An LLM consuming data from a training model is not.
minus-squareTheBurlapBandit@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoLLMs forcing us to take a look at ourselves and see if we’re really that special. I don’t think we are.
minus-squareDominic@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFor now, we’re special. LLMs are far more training data-intensive, hardware-intensive, and energy-intensive than a human brain. They’re still very much a brute-force method of getting computers to work with language.
This is a strawman.
You cannot act as though feeding LLMs data is remotely comparable to reading.
Why not?
Because reading is an inherently human activity.
An LLM consuming data from a training model is not.
LLMs forcing us to take a look at ourselves and see if we’re really that special.
I don’t think we are.
For now, we’re special.
LLMs are far more training data-intensive, hardware-intensive, and energy-intensive than a human brain. They’re still very much a brute-force method of getting computers to work with language.