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In the discussion yesterday I pointed to the case of some students suing turnitin for using their works in the turnitin database and the studemts lost [1]. I th
by cycomanic 5y ago
In the discussion yesterday I pointed to the case of some students suing turnitin for using their works in the turnitin database and the studemts lost [1]. I think an individual suing will not go anywhere. The way to create a precedent is someone feeding all the Harry Potter books and some additional popular books (twilight?) to GPT 3 and letting them write about some kids at a sorcerer school. The outcomes of that case would look very different IMO.
[1] https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/03/25/iparadigms-wins-t https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/03/25/iparadigms-wins-t...
- shawnz 5y agoDisney's intellectual property would be a good choice for this exercise
- intricatedetail 5y agoSuing will not go anywhere because Microsoft has billions at their disposal to defend any case.
- anfelor 5y agoNot a lawyer, but in that case it seemed to be a factor that turnitin was transformative, because it never sold the texts to others and thus didn't reduce the market value of them. But that wouldn't apply to copilot which might reduce the usage of libraries since you can "code" equivalent functionality with copilot now. Would it be a stretch to assert that GPL'd libraries have a market value for their creator in terms of reputation etc.?
- visarga 5y agoWhile we're worrying about ML learning to write our codes we should also break all the automated looms so people don't go without jobs. Do everything manually like God intended! /s Maybe a code that is easily recreated by GPT with a simple prompt is not worth copyrighting. The future is in making it more automated, not protecting IP. If you compete against a company using it, you can't ignore the advantage.