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Copilot Software AI Training Sued By Involuntary Contributors
Artificial Intelligence training (AI training) is used in a number of ways, including in the software industry. Neural net software takes a look at thousands (even millions!) of curated, desirable examples in order to recognize what humans think is important and desirable.
As you might imagine, the Internet provides an inexhaustible source of such material.
Called Copilot, the tool was designed to speed the work of professional programmers. As they typed away on their laptops, it would suggest ready-made blocks of computer code they could instantly add to their own...
Like many cutting-edge A.I. technologies, Copilot developed its skills by analyzing vast amounts of data. In this case, it relied on billions of lines of computer code posted to the internet. Mr. Butterick, 52, equates this process to piracy, because the system does not acknowledge its debt to existing work. His lawsuit claims that Microsoft and its collaborators violated the legal rights of millions of programmers who spent years writing the original code.
Artists, writers, composers and other creative types increasingly worry that companies and researchers are using their work to create new technology without their consent and without providing compensation. Companies train a wide variety of systems in this way, including art generators, speech recognition systems like Siri and Alexa, and even driverless cars.
(Via NYTimes)
Science fiction writers, as always are far ahead, often by generations. Such is the case even here. In his 1943 short story Q.U.R., Anthony Boucher describes how royalties should be paid to the subjects of machine learning:
In late June, Microsoft released a new kind of artificial intelligence technology that could generate its own computer code.
"I got one of those new electronic cameras - you know, one thousand exposures per second... So we took pictures of Guzub making a Three Planets, and I could construct this one to do it exactly right down to the thousandth of a second. The proper proportion of vuzd, in case you're interested, works out to three-point-six-five-four-seven eight-two-three drops. It's done with a flip of the third joint of the tentacle on the down beat. It didn't seem right to use Guzub to make a robot that would compete with him and probably drive him out of business, so we've promised him a generous pension from the royalties on usuform barkeeps."
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