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AI can reword something as much as needed to make it different. What are human authors going to do? Copyright all variations and paraphrases of their texts? Rei

AI can reword something as much as needed to make it different. What are human authors going to do? Copyright all variations and paraphrases of their texts? Reinvent copyright to cover not just expression, but ideas? I think that would make copyright borrow characteristics from trademarks and patents, it would not be fair. And LLMs are not used just to "abuse copyright", as you put it. They are also useful for task solving, thousands of different of tasks can be executed on language models. Thinking their sole purpose is copyright evasion is denying benefits to other people. Similarly artists think SD only exists to make infringing art, but it can be applied in many other fields, even other modalities like audio. Why don't we just ban electricity to protect copyright? Without electricity there is almost no more copying, not even loading a web page. /s No AI works without electricity. Problem solved if all that matters is copyright.

twelve40 4y ago
the parent is not talking about 'LLMs are used just to "abuse copyright"' at all, you made that up. They are not making some vague philosophical claims about all LLMs, they are pointing out a specific fact that ChatGPT (not "LLMs") is training on information that was created by someone else, aka theft. Some sources of their training data have already shut off the access, others may not even be aware that their work is being recycled for Microsoft's and OpenAI's gain. PS I would love to see some informed debate about how is it even possible to lift that much information without any kind of credit or reference to its authors and make a billion-dollar business out of that, but frustratingly everyone is too busy fantasizing how OpenAI is about to kill Google, seems to be a flashier topic...