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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by yencabulator on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:56PM (#37428331)
Is the contrivedness relevant to the legal question? It shows the model contains the copyrighted content and can reproduce it on demand.
Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by Filligree on Thursday September 07, 2023 @10:25PM (#37428485)
Yes. Courts will generally assign blame to whoever did the thing that caused a breach of the law, which in this case is the user.

In other words, law isn’t a programming language.

Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by Gigachad on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:49PM (#37429032)
My brain contains loads of copyrighted info. And if I exactly reproduce it from memory, it's copyright infringement. But if I come up with my own work, even if using that copyrighted info to learn from, it isn't infringement.
Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by yencabulator on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:51PM (#37429042)
I don't understand why people keep comparing humans and computers. The law does not treat machinery equal to a human.
Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by jaimex2 on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:38AM (#37429794)
You can't really say that. All this needs to be tested in court and see what definitions of what end up winning and setting precendent.

It can go either way.

Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by Gigachad on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:38AM (#37430236)
How would you even know where it came from? If I commit some code, you’d have no idea if I came up with it myself or if AI generated it.

And why would it matter?