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.

  •  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.