Certainly you can. You can audit Bill Header’s streaming history to see exactly what he watched and when.
But I think that’s immaterial as I think the answer is that it doesn’t matter if you train on copyrighted work. Or maybe better that you don’t need a special license.
If I steal books and train on them, then I think that’s copyright infringement not because of the training but because I made an infringing copy. However, if I have a license already to read those books (ie, I bought a copy at a book store) then it’s not infringement to train an AI, or loan it to a million people or whatever I like with it as I bought a copy.
mensetmanusman|2 years ago
prepend|2 years ago
But I think that’s immaterial as I think the answer is that it doesn’t matter if you train on copyrighted work. Or maybe better that you don’t need a special license.
If I steal books and train on them, then I think that’s copyright infringement not because of the training but because I made an infringing copy. However, if I have a license already to read those books (ie, I bought a copy at a book store) then it’s not infringement to train an AI, or loan it to a million people or whatever I like with it as I bought a copy.