If by "feature" you mean "pathway to model collapse" meaning "disappearing up one's own asshole" then yes. And the sooner the better.
> “We don’t want the adversarial relationship of most other AI builders around the world who chose not to take that proactive approach to copyright.”
> "Sovereign Australia AI said it would not scrape the pages of publishers who have added “robot.txt” files to their web pages. This is a line of code that tells bots not to scrape the information, but it is frequently ignored. The company will add a meta tag to every piece of data it acquires, recording where it came from and how it was sourced."
> To build its model, Sovereign Australia AI says it has placed Australia’s largest-ever order for sovereign AI capacity: 256 of the latest Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs which will be hosted inside one of NextDC’s Melbourne data centres
So... almost the exact opposite. Please read the article before commenting next time.
Did they forget to add "k" to that number? OpenAI plans to have one million GPUs by the EOY.
The same thing, legally, according to the judge in that lawsuit would have been a purchased (potentially used) copy of the book scanned - i.e. what Anthropic also did after pirating works. It'd be surprising if that would cost even $30USD/work, two orders of magnitude less.
$10AUD million doesn't seem sufficient for a competitive set (and as you say they aren't saying it is), but if you told me $50AUD million was enough to build a legal (according to Judge Alsup's interpretation of US law) repository of training data I would not be surprised.
The millions and billions you hear about in copyright "settlements" are just the amount it takes to bribe a local court, so $10MM is reasonable for Australia.
Not to defend the absurd statement about a bribe, but with regards to the $1.5 billion dollar settlement this isn't quite true. Because it's a class action the judge will also have to approve the settlement - finding that it was fair and agreed to without collusion. This is done because the incentive structures set up a bit of a conflict of interest between class action lawyers and members of the class... Of course none of the settlement goes to the judge or court, there's no bribing going on. But judges do reject class action settlements sometimes.
> June 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law. Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made "fair use", opens new tab of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-wins-key-...
And do they mention anything about how much of the work is going to be outsourced and where to? Or are they gonna import workers to do the job and send them back home when their local AI can replace most of the easy and tedious stuff? Or are they gonna use local models to do all that right away?
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> Unless we develop our own sovereign AI capability from the ground up, organisations will forever be looking over their shoulder, dogged by fear of ending up on the front page of the papers for all the wrong reasons.
> Michelle Ananda-Rajah; Senator for Victoria
https://www.afr.com/technology/our-ai-future-is-being-built-...
The grift that keeps giving
https://sovereign-au.ai/preserving-australias-digital-voice-...
WaltPurvis•5mo ago
(Note: The word "local" in the headline means "in Australia")