Posts by matski

ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI

But they did and are doing the very wrong thing - they lied and mislead everyone. Pretended they are doing "research" and claiming its all for "science", getting all of that data for free, ignoring the licensing with no one opposing and then all of a sudden selling themselves to Microsoft. If Microsoft went out and said that they are going to collect all open source code available publicly to create a commercial product for generating the code - there would be massive protests I can tell you that. They would want to prevent MS from doing that and maybe even force it to release software as Open Source. Sneaky cheeky way this got monetized is something that really annoys me.

Also all I heard they took all code available in github - I didn't hear anything about MIT license only. They probably just took everything. And even MIT and any other license - Never Allow To Take Out the Author. You need to attribute the author! And GPT is not doing that. To me this is breaking the license law and the using the code from GPT in your own - you might end up in legal issues.

Re: What about borrowing (stealing) the code?

You seem to dismiss the idea of intellectual property. I understand you are trying to say that it would benefit the humanity not to have any boundaries at all and just use whatever creation someone's made. Even if I partially agree with you - in that case GPT should also be free and available for download and instead it is a closed commercial product that is benefiting from other's work while not sharing much on its own. They even stopped sharing information about internal structure of the models created. That is hardly a fair move.

However, I do not agree with you fully because there is a significant effort that one has to take to perform an act of original creation. It requires skill and years of mastering and synthesis of information for numerous sources (visual, art, human interaction, abstract ideas, pain, etc.) to build something unique. In that sense AI is not adding anything to this creation - just reassembling and regenerating what it already "knows" in a different way. And intellectual rights need protection because it's too easy to copy someone else's work. If they didn't exist people would not want to even create anything as it might just get taken and reproduced by someone with more money, etc. This would not benefit the humanity as creativity would cripple - it would not be economically viable.

A good example I came across would be - would it be fair to get all of the books by Stephen King into an AI and then just generate a new book based on that and publish it by the name of Sarah Queen to directly compete with the author? Maybe even generate a better book. I think it would not be fair and if language model has been built that contains the books inside to generate new content - that would be derivative work from the original author. And original author should consent to that or at least be able to be credited and compensated.

Same with those pictures, art and code - GPT contains those in its model without even crediting the authors or where it comes from.

What about borrowing (stealing) the code

The truth is that OpenAI stole the licensed code and is keeping it inside itself as a part of it's model. They just claim it was "public" so they could take it. This was allowed when it was doing the "research" and non-profit but right now it's a commercial software. And they are using this original code (that's tokenized and stored in some form) to generate answers and code without showing any license or even credit for the original creator. This is a massive legal issue - this product is flawed and products that use the code it produces can be later sued for infringement. It did so for every other piece of work - science papers, art, etc.