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Re:OpenAI wil crush Sarah Silverman by andybak on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:12PM (#36948902)
Is that the right sense of "copying" though? I thought "distributing" was regarded as a better way to think about the law in this area.
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Re:OpenAI wil crush Sarah Silverman by twoodfin on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:29PM (#36949755)
Take a look at the circumstances of MAI Systems. The infringement found was a third-party maintenance engineer copying the user’s licensed software within the user’s own machine for unlicensed use.

Congress later carved out this particular case as fair use. There is no such carve out for copying novels to train LLMs.

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