The pretence that three almost entirely unrelated "intellectual property rights" somehow make ideas property, at least akin to personal property and sometimes even akin to real property (aka land to lay people) is very silly. Each is silly in its own distinct way, with the most defensible probably being Trademark, an extension of the rather older legal concept of "Passing off". But really abolishing all three of them might be a reasonable step, up there with getting rid of smoking.
Do you remember when there was smoking on aeroplanes? The little glowing sigil telling you not to smoke would go out at cruise altitude and then you could fill the already inadequate and stale air with smoke. Who thought that was a good idea? Well, a lot of the same people who thought Copyright was great. Maybe all the lead damaged their brains?
Does any of this somehow mean what the LLM companies are doing is good? No. But we can't understand what's happening if we insist on giving it the wrong name. Russia is not in Ukraine to undo nazification, the babies Israel is starving aren't terrorists. "But I want to use this word" doesn't make it the correct word.
Again, I agree it is not the same as theft of physical property. In fact, I point out that it is worse. Yes, unfortunately English language lacks a better word.
Do you remember when there was smoking on aeroplanes? The little glowing sigil telling you not to smoke would go out at cruise altitude and then you could fill the already inadequate and stale air with smoke. Who thought that was a good idea? Well, a lot of the same people who thought Copyright was great. Maybe all the lead damaged their brains?
Does any of this somehow mean what the LLM companies are doing is good? No. But we can't understand what's happening if we insist on giving it the wrong name. Russia is not in Ukraine to undo nazification, the babies Israel is starving aren't terrorists. "But I want to use this word" doesn't make it the correct word.