Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks...
by regularfry on Thursday September 07, 2023 @06:42PM
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> I don’t think any but the most copyleft segment of society thinks it would be reasonable for a generative AI trained on exactly one persons work to be used for profit by someone else.
Why do you think that? It doesn't seem obvious to me at all.
Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks...
by versteegen on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:40PM
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Well imagine you created a novel generator that just cut-and-paste whole sentences from the Harry Potter books to create a new Harry Potter. Now, as long as this was done as a just a bit of fun, non-commercial, I feel like that likely should be allowed as fair use (whether it actually would is not the point), though borderline. If you tried to sell it, definitely too far.
So I think the key part is "used for profit".
I don’t think any but the most copyleft segment of society thinks it would be reasonable for a generative AI trained on exactly one persons work to be used for profit by someone else.
An AI trained on two or ten people’s work probably feels the same for most folks, but what about when it’s thousands or millions? What if instead of one persons work it is the works held in copyright by an entity like Getty Images?