This will probably get buried, but a lot of the GOTCHA! LLM copyright bullshit is "it produces this passage from x book or y article perfectly!" Meanwhile the

This will probably get buried, but a lot of the GOTCHA! LLM copyright bullshit is "it produces this passage from x book or y article perfectly!" Meanwhile the complainant (such as GRRM) forgets that often passages from said articles and books are strewn throughout the Internet. Of course chat GPT can drop passages from the GoT books; there's several entire fucking wikis for that franchise that reference passages, quotes, details etc. Same goes for news articles, passages of which are often quoted by other sources or websites. Not that chatGPT has reproduced many works in whole, but it's an interesting logic problem for fair use law: if I have copyrighted article X, but websites ABCDEF all quote various passages of my article (ie fair use, critique, etc) and then ABCDEF is used to train an LLM, if the LLM can _reassemble_ the article from quoted passages without referencing article X itself, is it copyright infringement or fair use?