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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by esafak on Sunday June 15, 2025 @10:45PM (#44286261)
That's got nothing to do with it. It's all about copyright. Can it reproduce its training data verbatim? If so, Meta is in hot water.
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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by strangescript on Sunday June 15, 2025 @10:54PM (#44286296)
I read harry potter, and you ask me about a page, and I can recite it verbatim, did I just commit copyright infringement?
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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by bitmasher9 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @11:19PM (#44286378)
I pay for a service. The service recites a novel to me. The service would need permission to do this or it is copyright infringement.
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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by lucianbr on Sunday June 15, 2025 @11:20PM (#44286387)
Are you selling your ability to recite stuff? Then certainly.
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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by strangescript on Sunday June 15, 2025 @11:34PM (#44286436)
there are plenty of open source LLMs trained on harry potter, is that fine?
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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by davidcbc on Monday June 16, 2025 @12:20AM (#44286597)
No
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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by __loam on Sunday June 15, 2025 @11:19PM (#44286377)
This is an extremely common strawman argument. We're not discussing human memory.
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Re:Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry... by giardini on Monday June 16, 2025 @01:40PM (#44291635)
But if it's corpora do NOT include the Harry Potter books then Meta is NOT in hot water,! So take the Harry Potter books out of the corpora. What is lost? Nothing IMO useful other than the ability to discuss Harry Potter books. BFD.
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