Think about taxing the rich? THAT’S SOCIALISM

Ponder if an apartheid state is doing a genocide? ANTISEMITISM

Don’t like the new Marvel movie? SEXIST! RACIST!

Freedom of speech died long ago and now there is no flow of ideas, even incrementally. We’re in big trouble

I blame “Infinite growth”. i.e. Capitalism

But you and I did NOT. I see a lot of people online who can’t make the distinction.

EDIT: Thanks for replies, all. Some good conversation here

Ah, but that’s the thing. Training isn’t copying. It’s pattern recognition. If you train a model “The dog says woof” and then ask a model “What does the dog say”, it’s not guaranteed to say “woof”.

Similarly, just because a model was trained on Harry Potter, all that means is it has a good corpus of how the sentences in that book go.

Thus the distinction. Can I train on a comment section discussing the book?

We have to distinguish between LLMs

• Trained on copyrighted material and
• Outputting copyrighted material

They are not one and the same