What's so shocking in the brashness of their claims:
- UMG alleges that training generative AI on any of their artists is a "breach of our agreements and a violation of copyright law."
- We are asked, which side of history to we want to be on? Apparently, original AI-generated content that imitates artists is siding with "deep fakes, fraud, and denying artists their due compensation."
The song was labeled as a wholly original, AI-generated song and in now way misrepresented itself. Many of my lawyer friends say this is testing new boundaries on copyright law because of what UMG is claiming.
As GPUs like Nvidia's H100 cost over $30,000, Microsoft's own AI chip appears to arrive at a very opportune time to enable the company to pursue a very aggressive AI strategy.
From a pure numbers perspective, it's no question that it's a good rush. I think Sam Lessin's perspective that the incumbents may reap most of the rewards here is interesting to consider --- some of the dynamics of the generative AI market aren't like previous software categories that were newly developed. Here, generative AI is seeing integration into all kinds of existing workflows.
What does a post intellectual property world even look like, though? I'm not aware of any convincing frameworks that our existing society could merge into.
From reading Reddit and seeing how people are dealing with Bing Chat's embedding of sources, it sounds like there is a lot of unanswered anxiety around what will happen to the internet if anything you put out there simply gets regurgitated by an LLM, often w/o attribution.
I'll be curious to see how this set of regulations helps put content attribution on a better path.
Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt etc. have already been sued, so there will be a lot of action in the years ahead.
The AI Act has been under development since 2021 (it's the EU... so it takes time) -- but news broke this week that there are additional provisions under discussion specifically designed to address the rise of chatbots. My full summary of the act itself and the a breakdown of these new provisions is contained within the article.
As the news media and twitterverse peddled the whole "crime-ridden SF" angle, I felt myself getting drawn into the same topic and agreeing with numerous friends on how much the city has declined. This is a good reminder of how we gravitate towards powerful emotional narratives, which in the moment can feel absolutely true despite an utter lack of supporting facts on an individual murder case.
I hope this brings some measure of peace and closure for his family and friends.
Google is where projects go to die. Several friends who have joined via M&A have shared they had little expectations of seeing their babies continue in any way, shape of form after purchase by Google.
Source for this is the Run of World article linked in the document. Their China journalist spoke with recruiters who work on video game illustrator roles and gave background info on the trend and decrease.
I'd like to think this is similar to how Silicon Valley recruiters (the good ones, at least) have a strong pulse on the market and can share trends well in advance of them making it into any mainstream publications like WSJ or NYTimes.
Lots of immediate business from companies needing humans to spin up their models though... but as LLMs get more advanced it's anyone's guess what will happen here.
To add to that, the leaked documents from Snowden described a query language not unlike doing Boolean searches. Nothing close to GPT’s ability to comprehend human asks.
Anecdotally, several CTOs I know intend to lessen their use of Scale, Labelbox and more in the future. Talked to one today who already ditched MTurk for GPT-4 -- cheaper, better, faster was what he said.
Labelbox does image annotating still, and one CTO said as soon as GPT-4 enabled this for him he'd have his team homebrew it from there.
I would say the study itself is a groundbreaking milestone in the architecture it posits. The human behavior... quite mundane I agree! I watched the full demo twice and it reminded me of the more boring parts of the Sims 4. But maybe that's the magic as well?
One outcome of this study was that a panel of evaluators judged the bot interactions to be more "human" than when humans impersonated these characters. So you have a point.
The song was labeled as a wholly original, AI-generated song and in now way misrepresented itself. Many of my lawyer friends say this is testing new boundaries on copyright law because of what UMG is claiming.