JVillella

Congratulations guys! I met Josef an airport in Paris a few weeks ago and learned about your project (the YC sticker on your laptop was the ice-breaker). Best of luck on building a thriving business. :)

I really appreciate your personal experiences and how the availability of knowledge online changed your life. It did the same for me as well.

Model weights are a form of data compression. Have a look at variational autoencoders for example where this is made more explicit (its latent space is a compression).

Your arguments regarding "transformative work" is what the discussion is all about. Let's see where it lands with case law.

FWIW, my stance is copyrighted content should not be used in training without request.

>It's bad practice to go around espousing strong and condemnatory opinions about topics you don't have a full grasp of. In this case, it's both the technical details and the legal system. >It makes you look like a fool and costs you your credibility amongst peers in future encounters.

Agree, thank you for the feedback. My analogy was quite exaggerative.

>What would you say the basis of all knowledge you know is? You are a collection of everything you have consumed and the stuff you create is all influenced by that.

Surely you're not suggesting that there's no such thing as "original work". The production of which may have very high capital and labour costs - which if not protected from theft - would remove the incentives of producing original work.

>As someone who very much has skin in the game(my art is trained on midjourney)

I don't know your specific situation, but there's obviously different scales of importance here. What if your art was your sole source of income, and people were reproducing it under their own name? or if you had a product where you poured millions into developing some novel IP/methods, and some employee brought it with them when they went to work at your competitors?

They say crypto is “regulatory arbitrage”, I say this AI co-pilot stuff is “copyright arbitrage”.

Being a bit hand-wavy with it: It’s akin to torrenting music/movies. The torrented files are lossy compressed representations of the original waveform from the music producer. Limewire, or Pirate Bay, or whatever provide interface to retrieve them (download or stream). The model weights are a form of lossy compression, and inference is like a document retrieval.

One may say, “it’s like an employee working at company X, then going to work at company Y, they retain their knowledge and experience.” I would say it’s more like, employee going from X to Y, but retaining audio and video recordings of all interactions he had, notes, documents, and other proprietary info and bringing it to company Y.

Let me be more specific: why do the people speaking out about his "fortunate" past care so much? As long as it didn't come from something unethical, why does it matter to you?

I don't want read between the lines, but it's hard not to think it's a way for people to feel better about their own accomplishments by saying someone else had a massive head start.

Whether others do or don't, we should all be trying our best, be grateful for what we have, and proud of where we came from.

Who cares?

Yes, that's right. It's like USDC in that sense.

>How are people going to withdraw money and not put it into another bank? This guy is just saying ridiculous shit for attention, there’s no way he’s this stupid.

Maybe it goes something like this: AIUI the act of pulling money out of the banks will crash them, one by one. Along the way the government will continue to print to try to backstop it and restore confidence. The act of this just speeds up the demise. The money will get centralized to the GSIBs. But they have the same problem.

Wrong :) Look at the website.

That's not what I am saying. I am saying that BTC may be worth 100k, and the USD 500k and he still wins the bet (under the interpretation I mentioned above).