Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.

  • lemmyvore
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    272 years ago

    Tell you what, you get a landmark legal decision classifying LLM as people and then we’ll talk.

    Until then it’s software being fed content in a way not permitted by its license i.e. the makers of that software committing copyright infringement.

      • @sab@lemmy.world
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        202 years ago

        Using it to (create a tool to) create derivatives of the work on a massive scale.

        • FaceDeer
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          2 years ago

          An AI model is not a derivative work. It does not contain the copyrighted expression, just information about the copyrighted expression.

        • @SirGolan@lemmy.sdf.org
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          102 years ago

          Wikipedia: In copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work.

          I think you may be off a bit on what a derivative work is. I don’t see LLMs spouting out major copyrightable elements of books. They can give a summary sure, but Cliff Notes would like to have a word if you think that’s copyright infringement.