| ▲ | Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'(tomshardware.com) |
| 64 points by jonbaer 4 hours ago | 19 comments |
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| ▲ | buzer 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Discussion from yesterday (811 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752056 |
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| ▲ | muchdoubt 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Only to be topped by the massive amount of IP that Copilot is possibly secretly harvesting at present. We already believe OpenAI/Anthropic are doing it, what’s to stop Microsoft from attempting to improve their competitive advantage by surreptitiously using their role as a MiTM between end user Corporations and Model servers. |
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| ▲ | hagbard_c an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Here's a Bible verse this Microsoft individual should acquaint himself with: https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew%207%3A5 Whether religious or not, the verse applies to anyone and everyone making such statements from the position of companies like Microsoft. I'll quite the KJV version 'cause that one lends itself well to situations like these. Read it with a booming thunder-loaded voice: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. |
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| ▲ | AlexErrant 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It's a memo taken out of context from Jan 2023, literally 1 month after the ChatGPT public release. All the article cites: > The brief cited an internal memo dated January 2023 by Microsoft director of Applied Science Brent Hecht, where he allegedly said, “Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and also called it “the largest theft of labor in human history.” No need to add religion into this. Let MS employees write their emails. If anything, what he said a month after ChatGPT's release was prophetic. | |
| ▲ | zugi 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | By stealing text from the Bible rather than using your own words, you've just committed labor theft! Of course that accusation sounds outrageous as it should. All human knowledge and progress has come by building on the works of those who came before us, as it should. Turning this on its head and calling it "theft of labor" is insane, as is asking others not to build on today's knowledge. Or to steal some more human labor: "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." |
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| ▲ | Razengan an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Oh let's talk about sins of Microsoft since the 1980s, shall we? |
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| ▲ | jmclnx an hour ago | parent [-] | | He is correct, but why make the statement ? My guess, Microsoft is failing on their AI push. | | |
| ▲ | sandeepkd an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | An executive at this level is not going to risk their personal political capital to make such statements unless its part of plan and thought through. They might be right but in capitalistic system no company would given them a opportunity after such statements. | |
| ▲ | Avshalom 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Microsoft owns a quarter of OpenAI and 20% of it's revenue |
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| ▲ | fxtentacle 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| if he “had been made aware that OpenAI has scraped and trained on information that was behind a paywall,” the company would have required OpenAI “to retrain its models.” ... yeah, sure. |
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| ▲ | bdcravens 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Presumably someone was paid when the content was created. So it's not really the labor that's being stolen, but the future value of the deliverable. I'm pretty sure any of the eras of slavery throughout human history is more of an actual theft of labor. |
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| ▲ | toofy 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > So it's not really the labor that's being stolen, but the future value of the deliverable. the choice was stolen as well. the agency was stolen as well. | | |
| ▲ | jamienk 27 minutes ago | parent [-] | | When we sing, draw, speak, play, we are not attacking the soul of someone else! Culture has always had a kind of violence to it, but not FROM the THIEF: you HAVE to speak the language that was already made; you have to understand and participate in their song-structures, their plot devices, their ways of attesting. The "IP owners" should be paying ME!!! |
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| ▲ | andybak an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | A huge chunk of the content that was scraped was most likely provided voluntarily rather than being waged labour. | | |
| ▲ | sandeepkd an hour ago | parent [-] | | Either way, a change did happen, financial impact aside this change is definitely going to disrupt the ecosystem as a whole which is a much bigger unknown at this point. > A huge chunk of the content that was scraped was most likely provided voluntarily rather than being waged labour. People committing work get rewards in different ways, waged labour could be one, attributions, acknowledgements, future job opportunities and more. Stripping those from the rightful owners can hardly be justified in the name of progress. | | |
| ▲ | andybak an hour ago | parent [-] | | I wasn't implying that it was okay to "steal" things because they were offered voluntarily. My position on this is kind of complex and nuanced but this particular reply was meant to state the opposite. |
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| ▲ | thibaut_barrere an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is not how authors rights work |
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