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The question if training an llm is fair use is one that will have to be answered by the courts.
by llm_trw 2y ago
The question if training an llm is fair use is one that will have to be answered by the courts.
- yencabulator 2y agoThe point (often) is to stop the practice, not to ask money for it. Like, you get fined for speeding, but if you keep speeding you'll get you're license revoked, and if you keep driving after that you get jail time. The payment required is punitive, but the point is to stop you.
- llm_trw 2y agoAgain, that an opinion that will need to be tested in the courts. You will have to explain why Hunter Thompson copying every word of every Hemingway novel isn't copyright infringement, but a computer doing the same is.
- yencabulator 2y agoThree things: 1. Humans are not machines; arguments saying because a human can learn LLMs must be allowed to copy is not interesting. 2. Did Thompson publish the work? It sounds like you're referring to an activity Thompson did in private, to improve his skills as an author. Meanwhile, lawsuits are alleging that LLM services reproduce copyrighted materials. 3. What can be fair use at small scale is no longer fair use at large scale.
- llm_trw 2y agoIf you think that pretraining is copying then your opinions are irrelevant.
- yencabulator 2y agoIf you think courts follow your personal opinion and technical definition, you're silly. The reality is we don't yet know how the courts will decide.
- logifail 2y ago> Hunter Thompson copying every word of every Hemingway novel isn't copyright infringement I make a high-res photo of a banknote. I can print that out at home. The bad stuff starts at the step after that...