> For example any discussion about copyrighted works, which is a hot topic, will inevitably end up with someone equating an LLM "learning" to a human learning, as if the two are identical.
I don’t think the point is that the two are exactly identical or that humans and LLMs are equivalent, but that the processes are similar enough in the general level that any attempt to regulate LLM training in copyrighted material will inevitably have the same ramifications for human learning.
In pretty much all attempts I’ve seen to differentiate the two, it inevitably boils down to hand-waving about how human beings are “special”.
I don’t think the point is that the two are exactly identical or that humans and LLMs are equivalent, but that the processes are similar enough in the general level that any attempt to regulate LLM training in copyrighted material will inevitably have the same ramifications for human learning.
In pretty much all attempts I’ve seen to differentiate the two, it inevitably boils down to hand-waving about how human beings are “special”.