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US copyright law cares about originality and expressiveness, not labour and cost. It can be very expensive to collect and print a list of every business and the
by papercrane 4y ago
US copyright law cares about originality and expressiveness, not labour and cost. It can be very expensive to collect and print a list of every business and their phone number in a book, but the result is not copyrightable in the US.
- evandale 4y agoThis is a pretty compelling argument to me that the weights shouldn't be able to be copyrighted. In essence, aren't they a list of numbers you can search through to get a result? Would it makes sense to say a "give me a rowboat on the water" prompt (search) is the same as a "give me the phone number of company XYZ" search in a phonebook? What exactly is a prompt anyway? Can you copyright the assembly that a compiler spits out? Is an AI prompt the same as source code and its output is the assembly a compiler would generate? Does that mean the model is a compiler? I assume a compiler can be copyrighted, so then maybe the weights can be copyrighted? Or would it make more sense that the combination of (weights + prompt + seed + output) is copyrightable? I don't have answers to any of these or know if they're reasonable questions but I'm starting to find this all very fascinating.