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Does anyone know what the copyright status of LLM generated content is? That is, if I feed a NYT article into GPT4 and say, summarize this article, and then pub

Does anyone know what the copyright status of LLM generated content is? That is, if I feed a NYT article into GPT4 and say, summarize this article, and then publish that summary, is there argument or precedent that says that is or is not copyright infringement? Asking for a friend.

mensetmanusman 3y ago
No one knows, this is new territory. Maybe the fermi filter is litigating an AI that would otherwise save humanity.
- gizmo385 3y ago
  > an AI that would otherwise save humanity. Just to clarify, this is sarcasm right?
- kevindamm 3y ago
  Or the filter could be the other way, failing to litigate an AI to decelerate it's progress, and a risk of augmenting the underlying society too much too quickly.
zozbot234 3y ago
Typically if you ask a chatbot to "summarize" something, it will paraphrase the original closely enough that it would be considered plagiarism and copyright infringement. To avoid that, it's required to distill the relevant ideas contained in the text, and expound on them in a way that's not dependent on how the text itself was expressed, structured or organized. You would need to tell the model to do this over multiple steps, and then derive a rephrased article without looking at the original at all. (Which is not really possible if the article was in the AI's training set, as is the case here.)
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lb4r 3y ago
Technically, you just send a request to OpenAI and they are the ones who feed it into GPT4. Although I'd argue this is irrelevant to your question, the law works in mysterious way so perhaps it carries some importance.
paulddraper 3y ago
There is no difference between an LLM summarizing a copyrighted work and a Wikipedia contributor summarizing a copyrighted work. Wikipedia has some words on how summaries related to copyright law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plot-only_description_of_fictional_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plot-only_descriptio...

mensetmanusman 3y ago

No one knows, this is new territory. Maybe the fermi filter is litigating an AI that would otherwise save humanity.

gizmo385 3y ago
> an AI that would otherwise save humanity. Just to clarify, this is sarcasm right?
kevindamm 3y ago
Or the filter could be the other way, failing to litigate an AI to decelerate it's progress, and a risk of augmenting the underlying society too much too quickly.

zozbot234 3y ago

Typically if you ask a chatbot to "summarize" something, it will paraphrase the original closely enough that it would be considered plagiarism and copyright infringement. To avoid that, it's required to distill the relevant ideas contained in the text, and expound on them in a way that's not dependent on how the text itself was expressed, structured or organized. You would need to tell the model to do this over multiple steps, and then derive a rephrased article without looking at the original at all. (Which is not really possible if the article was in the AI's training set, as is the case here.)

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lb4r 3y ago

Technically, you just send a request to OpenAI and they are the ones who feed it into GPT4. Although I'd argue this is irrelevant to your question, the law works in mysterious way so perhaps it carries some importance.

paulddraper 3y ago

There is no difference between an LLM summarizing a copyrighted work and a Wikipedia contributor summarizing a copyrighted work. Wikipedia has some words on how summaries related to copyright law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plot-only_description_of_fictional_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plot-only_descriptio...