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What's the difference between using a pencil to write something and using an LLM to write something? Seriously, I'm asking the question. Why does one produce so

• banana_feather 3y ago
  The copyright office has issued guidance on this which contains a very thorough and thoughtful legal analysis; you would probably be most interested section 3: https://copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf https://copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf The practical answer is that the copyright office refuses to register AI generated works, and you can't sue for copyright infringement without valid registration under Title 17.
• JoshTriplett 3y ago
  > What's the difference between using a pencil to write something and using an LLM to write something? The pencil is not a derivative work of a pile of copyrighted material. > Why does one produce something copyrighted why the other doesn't? There's existing case law that non-human entities (e.g. animals) can't create copyrightable works. And in the case of an AI LLM, the AI LLM itself is a derivative work of its training data (as evidenced by the fact that it can by default spit out training data verbatim, even if it has had after-the-fact filters added to prevent such responses).