Re:Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply to AI Training
by lmm on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:14AM
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The things that an LLM is likely to contain a complete verbatim copy of are things that are a) short b) widely repeated to the point that they're embedded into our culture - and by that token those things are almost certainly not copyrightable.
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Re:Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply to AI Training
by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:19AM
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Is a bar in a song not "short"?
Try putting one of those in your book and not getting sued for copyright.
Re:Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply to AI Training
by lmm on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:40AM
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If you literally mean a bar, yes those are short, likely a couple of words, and you put those in books all the time and don't get sued. ("The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind" is 4 bars, and I've seen books quote it verbatim without a second thought). Likewise, plenty of people put the entire Declaration of Independence in their book without a second thought, and I assume don't get sued for it.
If you're talking about a verse or more of something that's not quite so culturally pervasive (people put the whole of the star-spangled banner in their books, again without a second thought), well, at that point it's probably not something that an LLM would reproduce verbatim.