Lex Fridman: belief

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…What about artists? What about people that are really… Because the difference between coding and artists is very, very simple. If you gave me a sheet of paper, I could draw you a crab. You go, “That’s a crab.” But you can’t do that with coding. It’s like it’s right or it’s wrong. There’s not a variation of interpretation for what a crab is. It’s like, “No, you cannot make that statement.” It’s very bounded in what it can express. And I could see why artists, that’s a very frustrating point. And then who gets rewarded for all that? And then there’s like the whole thing with coding and licenses. How much of it is GPL licenses, do you think, they’ve scraped and used as training data? GPL forces open source. What are you going to do with that one? That means your model might need to be open source. OpenAI may have to get forced open, all their previous stuff if there’s any hint of GPL. Yeah, that’s a weird one. That’s a really weird one because most of these models I think are training on data they don’t technically have rights to be training on. Yeah, there’s a lot of questions.…

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