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Early indications [0] [1] from the US Copyright Office seem to suggest AI-produced works will not be copyrightable: > If a work's traditional elements of autho
by chatmasta 4y ago
Early indications [0] [1] from the US Copyright Office seem to suggest AI-produced works will not be copyrightable:
> If a work's traditional elements of authorship were produced by a machine, the work lacks human authorship and the Office will not register it.
However, this guidance seems primarily about the stuff you create _with_ AI, not necessarily the model weights used in the AI itself.
[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05321/copyright-registration-guidance-works-containing-material-generated-by-artificial-intelligence https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...
[1] Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206
- dragonwriter 4y agoAI weights are as much a mechanical, non-creative result of the training set and the netowrk initial state as other AI outputs are a mechanical, non-creative result of the prompt and the network trained state, so except that the input is bigger for the weights case for the same model as it would be for the output case, I don't see a difference.
- chatmasta 4y agoI agree. But it's not like we could force companies to release the weights of their models. We might obtain them in other ways, such as unauthorized leaks, or reverse engineering. But if the company didn't intend to release them, does that mean they're protectable as a trade secret? And if so, are trade secrets enforceable in the same way as copyrights? (Also, another element to this case is that GitHub is owned by Microsoft, who has a conflict of interest with Meta in terms of ChatGPT vs. LLaMA)