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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by croes on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:25PM (#39016698)
I doubt it's still fair use if you become one of most valuable companies, hence the word "fair" in fair use.
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by andybak on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:32PM (#39016817)
It's a specific legal term - so the everyday meaning of the words isn't relevant as far as I understand it.
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by croes on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:52PM (#39017169)
There is a reason why the word was chosen, in essence, it is about the meaning of the word
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by yreg on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:32PM (#39017868)
The value of a company has nothing to do with whether copyright applies.
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by croes on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:10PM (#39019187)
Unless the value of the company is based on one product with alleged copyright infringement.

OpenAI has one asset: GPT.

>Commercial use does not automatically make the use copyright infringement, but it is an important deciding factor.

https://saltiellawgroup.com/2021/10/%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bcan-yo...

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by yreg on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @06:10PM (#39020503)
That says nothing about the value of the company.

If it's an infringement when OpenAI does it, it would be an infringement when a company with 1/1000th the value did it.

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by tsimionescu on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:33PM (#39016829)
The fair in fair use has nothing to do with the size of a company. If Disney produces a satire of Penny Arcade, that's still fair use of Penny Arcade's IP.
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by croes on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:51PM (#39017151)
Satire is always linked to the object of the satire, that's he fair part.

LLM text and images aren't.

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