The complication is that AI does not really plagiarize, in the way that someone copying an image or a block of text and passing it off as their own is plagiarizing. The AI stores only the weights from its pretraining, not the underlying text it trained on, so it reproduces a work with similar characteristics but not a direct copy of the original pi

The CEOs of the major AI companies even signed a single-sentence statement in 2023 stating, “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” Yet every one of these AI companies also continued AI development. Why? The most obvious reason is that developing

One prominent AI critic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, is so concerned about the possibility that he suggested that there be a complete moratorium on AI development,4 enforced by air strikes on any data center that was suspected of engaging in AI training, even if that led to global war.

it becomes more intelligent than a human, an ASI—artificial superintelligence. The moment an ASI is invented, humans become obsolete. We cannot hope to understand what it is thinking, how it operates, or what its goals are. It is likely able to continue to self-improve exponentially, getting ever more intelligent.

this particular AI is the first machine to become as smart, capable, creative, and flexible as a human, making it what is called an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

we have an AI that acts very much like a person, but in ways that aren’t quite human. Something that can seem sentient but isn’t (as far as we can tell). We have invented a kind of alien mind. But how do we ensure the alien is friendly? That is the alignment problem.

Transformer technology

LLM development continued until ChatGPT was released by OpenAI in late 2022, running an improved LLM called GPT-3.5. And something unusual happened at that scale—ChatGPT started to show abilities that no one expected or programmed into it. Abilities that make it seem humanlike. The result is an AI that can write stories, poems, essays, tweets, and

Since the data is used to create weights, and not directly copied into the AI systems, some experts consider it to be outside standard copyright law.