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A relevant story here... the US Copyright Office denied a submission indicating the output from an AI product does not constitute "human authorship".... even if all the potential input data was from a human. 1) Can you profit from others' work on the input side? 2) Can you say the work is yours because you "designed" the prompts to the model? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-copyright-office-withdraws-copyright-for-ai-generated-comic-artwork/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

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Very informative. I especially love the predictions/projections as I can definitely foresee them.

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“However, any good lawyer will tell you the important part of their jobs isn't in what's the same, but what is different - even if only 5% is different.”

The same will be true in situations where a document in one language is translated to another, or where there is a live translation that is being carried out by AI. That is why, probably, any smart negotiator who needs a translator will have a trusted human translator standing nearby, ready to say, “Um, sir, ChatGPT messed that up, as that was Xiang dialect, not Beijing dialect.”

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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Michael Spencer

Our first mistake was to “trust” in the transference of our ‘public’ utility telecommunication networks critical connectivity, e.g. ownership of the outside plant physical INFRASTRUCTURE (telecommunications/broadband networks used as the on and off ramps accessing these CDNs, platforms and services - essentially most of today’s Internet and even critical public safety and national security traffic thereby deregulating most any means to a decentralized leveraging of discussion).

I propose we start this discussion using what critical thinking we have remaining in the return to the pre-1996 telecommunication deregulation act era where ownership of our outside plant telecommunication lines was a decentralized and still federated infrastructure as still exemplified and in practice with our highways, airways and waterways models. While not a solution in itself, it would afford us leverage in this process of determining choice or levels of AI vendor participation or non-participation in a more democratic manner, rather than the arbitrary, and often scandalous behavior that’s resulted since the 90’s. https://youtu.be/mGzDpY6ZTnk

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