> Exact training code isn't always available, and OpenAI has even gone so far as to refuse to say anything about GPT-4's architecture or training set to prevent open replication.
this is why i think the patent and copyright system is a failure. The idea that having laws protecting information like this would advance the progress of science.
It doesn't, because look how an illegally leaked model gets much more advances in shorter time. The laws protecting IP merely gives a moat to incumbents.
> The laws protecting IP merely gives a moat to incumbents.
Yes. These laws are bad. We could fix this with a 2 line change:
Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Constitution is hereby repealed.
Section 2. Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to publish information.
Abolishing the copyright clause would not solve this problem because OpenAI is not leveraging copyright or patents. They're just not releasing anything.
To fix this, you'd need to ban trade secrecy entirely. As in, if you have some kind of invention or creative work you must publish sufficient information to replicate it "in a timely manner". This would be one of those absolutely insane schemes that only a villain in an Ayn Rand book would come up with.
> Abolishing the copyright clause would not solve this problem because OpenAI is not leveraging copyright or patents. They're just not releasing anything.
The problem is how in the world is ChatGPT so good compared to the average human being? The answer is that human beings (except for the 1%), have their left hands tied behind their back because of copyright law.
The idea of a patent was always a time-limited monopoly and in exchange you would reveal trade secrets that could presumably advance science. I think like many aspects of modernity, it's a bit outmoded these days, particularly in software, but that was the idea. Copyright was similar, but it did not last nearly as long as it does today in the original US incarnations.
this is why i think the patent and copyright system is a failure. The idea that having laws protecting information like this would advance the progress of science.
It doesn't, because look how an illegally leaked model gets much more advances in shorter time. The laws protecting IP merely gives a moat to incumbents.