He's just test driving LLMs, nothing more.
Nobody's asking this core question in podcasts. "How much and how exactly are you using LLMs in your daily flow?"
I'm guessing it's like actors not wanting to watch their own movies.
He's doing a capability check in this video (for the general audience, which is good of course), not attacking a hard problem in ML domain.
Despite this tweet: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1964020416139448359 , I've never seen him citing an LLM helped him out in ML work.
If he did not believe in the capability of these models, he would be doing something else with his time.
Truth be told, a whole lot of things are more important than copyright law.
A pretty terrible way, but... certainly one way.
It would be crazy to think the protections of IP laws and the ability to claim original work as your own and have a degree of control over it as an author fostered creativity in science and arts.
The human race has produced an extremely rich body of work long before US copyright law and the DMCA existed. Instead of creating new financial models which embrace freedoms while still ensuring incentives to create new art, we have contorted outdated financial models, various modes of rent-seeking and gatekeeping, to remain viable via artificial and arbitrary restriction of freedom.
Furthermore, claiming “X is not natural” is never a valid argument. Humans are part of nature, whatever we do is as well by extension. The line between natural and unnatural inevitably ends up being the line between what you like and what you don’t like.
The need to eat is as much a natural law as higher human needs—unless you believe we should abandon all progress and revert to pre-civilization times.
IP laws ensure that you have a say in the future of the product of your work, can possibly monetise it, etc., which means a creative 1) can fulfil your need to eat (individual benefit), and 2) has an incentive to create it in the first place (societal benefit).
In the last few hundred years intellectual property, not physical property, is increasingly the product of our work and creative activities. Believing that physical artifacts we create deserve protection against theft while intellectual property we create doesn’t needs a lot of explanation.
So you're able to use them commercially as you see fir, but you can't use them freely in the most absolute sense, but then again this is a thread about restricting the freedoms of organizations in the name of a 25-year-old law that has been a disgrace from the start.
> contributing to degradation of the Web for humans
I'll be the first to say that Meta did this with Facebook and Instagram, along with other companies such as Reddit.
However, we don't yet know what the web is going to look like post-AI, and it's silly to blame any one company for what clearly is an inevitable evolution in technology. The post-AI web was always coming, what's important is how we plan to steward these technologies.
> The post-AI web was always coming
“The third world war was always coming.”
These things are not a force of nature, they are products of human effort, which can be ill-intentioned. Referring to them as “always coming” is 1) objectively false and 2) defeatist.