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Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by mjg59 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:23AM (#27818675)
What existing law, precedent, and circumstances demonstrate that the output of an ML model is a derived work of the training data?
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Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by krab on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:12AM (#27818913)
The problem is probably the distinguishing line. When is it a ML model doing something and when is it a human with tools doing the same thing?

In other words, to what extent does the color of the bits matter? [1] And does the output of a ML model have a new "color"?

[1]: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

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Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by michaelmrose on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:31AM (#27819020)
If I wrote a shell script to sample a subset of your code base and rename the identifiers I shouldn't think it would require new case law to figure that out.
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