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It will be interesting if a significant jurisdiction's copyright law is some day changed to treat LLM training as copying. In a lot of places, previous behaviou
by fulafel 2y ago
It will be interesting if a significant jurisdiction's copyright law is some day changed to treat LLM training as copying. In a lot of places, previous behaviour can't be retroactively outlawed[1]. So older LLMs will be much more capable than post-change ones.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
- atq2119 2y agoEven if you can't be punished retroactively for previous behavior, continuing to benefit from it can be outlawed. In other words, it would be compatible from a legal perspective to ban the use of LLMs that were trained in violation of copyright law. Given the political landscape I doubt that's going to happen, though.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoThe part where a python script ingested the books is not the infringing step, it's when they downloaded the books in the first place.