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Are photocopy machines illegal? Are CD-ROM burners illegal? Both allow near-unlimited copies of copyrighted material at a scale much faster than a human could
by Vvector 3y ago
Are photocopy machines illegal? Are CD-ROM burners illegal? Both allow near-unlimited copies of copyrighted material at a scale much faster than a human could do alone.
The tools are not the problem, it's how humans use them.
- chlorion 3y ago>CD-ROM burners They can be used in an illegal way if used to copy copyrighted material, yes.
- Vvector 3y agoSame as an LLM, they can be used in an illegal way if used to copy copyrighted material. So I can't tell it to reproduce a copyrighted work. But it can create new material in the style of another artist.
- chlorion 3y agoThe difference is that the LLM is still copying copyrighted material in your case, but if I burn a Linux ISO, that is not happening. You do not have to produce an exact copy of something to violate copyright, and I think anything the LLM outputs is violating copyright for everything it has ever trained on, unless the operator (the person operating the LLM and/or the person prompting it) has rights to that content.
- squidbeak 3y agoAnd are the burners themselves illegal because you can name illegal uses for them?
- chlorion 3y agoNo, and I don't think anyone is arguing that LLMs should be illegal either. I personally am not against LLMs training on things the operator has rights to, and even training on copyrighted things, but I am against it laundering those things back out and claiming it's legal.