Some argue that bots should be entitled to ingest any content they see, because people can.

Avram Piltch is the editor in chief of Tom’s Hardware, and he’s written a thoroughly researched article breaking down the promises and failures of LLM AIs.

    •  conciselyverbose   ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 
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      2 years ago

      So is literally every human work in the last 1000 years in every context.

      Nothing is “original”. It’s all derivative. Feeding copyrighted work into an algorithm does not in any way violate any copyright law, and anyone telling you otherwise is a liar and a piece of shit. There is no valid interpretation anywhere close.

    •  lily33   ( @lily33@lemm.ee ) 
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      2 years ago

      From Wikipedia, “a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work”.

      You can probably can the output of an LLM ‘derived’, in the same way that if I counted the number of 'Q’s in Harry Potter the result derived from Rowling’s work.

      But it’s not ‘derivative’.

      Technically it’s possible for an LLM to output a derivative work if you prompt it to do so. But most of its outputs aren’t.