Re:Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply to AI Training
by majormajor on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:54PM
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I'm not sure where we're going with the output in these examples.
So let's say there's a human-written poem that's copyright.
Let's say a human completely coincidentally writes an identical poem.
"Accidentally" producing the same poem wouldn't give the second human any claim to copyrighting or distributing their coincidentally-identical poem.
And if GPT accidentally copies large chunks of Harry Potter or Frozen or whatever other popular work, that new creation will have the same problems.
But what does that say about if we should also restrict the use of copyright material in training? Just because some algorithm - or some person - can coincidentally duplicate a copyrighted work even without directly reading it doesn't seem to relate to the case of building a model by explicitly using the copyrighted material.
So let's say there's a human-written poem that's copyright.
Let's say a human completely coincidentally writes an identical poem.
"Accidentally" producing the same poem wouldn't give the second human any claim to copyrighting or distributing their coincidentally-identical poem.
And if GPT accidentally copies large chunks of Harry Potter or Frozen or whatever other popular work, that new creation will have the same problems.
But what does that say about if we should also restrict the use of copyright material in training? Just because some algorithm - or some person - can coincidentally duplicate a copyrighted work even without directly reading it doesn't seem to relate to the case of building a model by explicitly using the copyrighted material.