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There's a youtuber that makes excellent videos about this topic. Here's a longer one, but the shorter ones covering particular lawsuits are great too: https://
by tinco 3y ago
There's a youtuber that makes excellent videos about this topic. Here's a longer one, but the shorter ones covering particular lawsuits are great too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFUdIZnI5o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFUdIZnI5o
It doesn't really matter what my or anyone's view on it is, unless they're either a law maker or a judge.
People do not get sued for having abilities. They get sued for publishing copyrighted works. What tools they use to create or publish those works is not relevant.
The only interesting legal question in my opinion is wether the large language model itself can be considered a carrier of copyrighted information, like for example an encrypted DVD would be.
If you can come up with a prompt that itself does not contain substantial copyrighted information, and that prompt leads the model to come up with a substantial amount of copyrighted information, then in my opinion it's no different from an encrypted DVD, and as such would illegal to distribute without licensing. Also I believe it would be illegal to provide access to it over the web like OpenAI does.
IANAL, but I wouldn't hold stock in any company that publishes (access to) models that are easily goaded into producing substantial copyrighted information.
- marshray 3y agoI think the encrypted DVD is the best analogy I've heard so far. In fact, I once asked an actual lawyer about the information-theoretic questions raised by illegal/infringing content known to be on an encrypted storage device. Her answer was "Yeahhhh, no, the Judge is probably not going to see it that way." :-)