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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by andrepd on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:04AM (#40397251)
xz can compress the text of Harry Potter by a factor of 30:1. Does that mean I can also distribute compressed copies of copyrighted works and that's okay?
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by ben_w on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:17AM (#40397291)
Can you get that book out of an LLM?

Because that's the distinction being argued here: it's "a handful"[0] of probabilities, not the complete work.

[0] I'm not sold on the phrasing "a handful", but I don't care enough to argue terminology; the term "handful" feels like it's being used in a sorites paradox kind of way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by Sharlin on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:18AM (#40397299)
Incredibly poor analogy. If an LLM were able to regurgitate Harry Potter on demand like xz can, the copyright situation would be much more black and white. But they can’t, and it’s not even close.
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by realusername on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:26AM (#40397330)
You can't get Harry Potter out of the LLM, that's the difference
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