Naval: Paying AI copyright holders fails; open-sourcing models is the solution
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Naval Ravikant explains on the All-In Podcast why licensing web data for AI training fails globally, advocating instead for open-sourcing models trained on public web data.
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“So there's only one of two stable solutions. Either you pay the copyright holders, which I actually think doesn't work, And the reason is because someone in China will crawl it, and they just dump the weights, right? So they can just crawl and dump the compressed weights. Or if you crawl, make it open. At least contribute something back to open source, right? You crawled open data, contributed back to open source.”
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