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Re:Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI by madamelic on Saturday December 30, 2023 @10:03AM (#38815756)
> Taken to its conclusion, liability is then on everyone who decides to publish anything that ChatGPT “tells” them

Yes. Just like reading anything else on the internet. An LLM is no different from typing "popular cola logo" into Google search and claiming you invented it. If I type "cola logo" into DALL-E and get a replica of Coca-Cola... that doesn't mean I created that logo and can exploit it for commercial purposes.

> Are the OpenAIs of the world ready to shield their customers from that liability?

Why would they? We aren't suing pen manufacturers because someone wrote something libelous using their pen. We aren't busting down the doors of Crayola because little Johnny used the crayons to draw Mario.

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Re:Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI by regularfry on Saturday December 30, 2023 @11:38AM (#38816520)
OpenAI might not want to shield all their customers from liability, but that is exactly what GitHub have done with Copilot. It's not a hypothetical, it's being done today.
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Re:Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI by ncruces on Saturday December 30, 2023 @12:03PM (#38816722)
Otherwise it wouldn't get used.

I mean get this great auto complete; if you use it, your code might be AGPLed for all you know, and you're in violation, because you didn't even add a notice.

Would you pay for that?

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