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I was under the impression training was at best an undefined area of IP law. Is there any aspect of copyright that prohibits training models?
by brookst 3y ago
I was under the impression training was at best an undefined area of IP law. Is there any aspect of copyright that prohibits training models?
- simonw 3y agoThis is being tested by a number of lawsuits right now, most notably the NY Times one: https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec2023.pdf https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec20... The key questions are around "fair use". Part of the US doctrine of fair use is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" - so one big question here is whether a model has a negative impact on the market for the copyrighted work it was trained on.
- sroussey 3y agoI don’t think the New York Times thing is that much about training, than it is about the fact that ChatGPT can use Bing and Bing has access to New York Times articles for search purposes.
- simonw 3y agoIf you read the lawsuit it's absolutely about training. The Bing RAG piece is one of the complaints in there but it's by no means the most important. Take a look at https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec2023.pdf https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec20... - bullet points 2 and 4 on pages 2/3 are about training data. Bullet point 5 is the Bing RAG thing.
- sroussey 3y agoAh, thanks!