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> Anthropic's IP was created by harvesting and "distilling" other people's IP. Copyrighted materials, and the commons... which they have essentially privatized.
by trymas 3mo ago
> Anthropic's IP was created by harvesting and "distilling" other people's IP. Copyrighted materials, and the commons... which they have essentially privatized.
Anthropic and others argue that because LLMs don’t output full copyrighted works word for word - hence their LLMs aren’t infringing on copyright laws.
I think (if this ever comes to that) Chinese lab should use same arguments against Anthropic.
UPDATE: this is slight hyperbole of course, not worth arguing what they actually said. The point is intent and the facts - "The Big LLMs" "distilled" collective knowledge including copyrighted works at unimaginable scale, but it's all kosher and totally not piracy/copyright infringement. Though if you're teenager torrenting an mp3 - you'll get screwed.
- Hamuko 3mo agoIsn’t the output of LLMs completely copyright-free in the US?
- nutjob2 3mo agoOne lower court has said that the output of AI models is uncopyrightable. But the real unsettled issue is if model training is fair use, and where copyright infringement might creep in to model output.
- camgunz 3mo agoThe copyright office itself also says this when it talks about determining authorship.
- nutjob2 3mo ago> LLMs don’t output full copyrighted works word for word Apparently they do, as per the evidence in the NYT vs OpenAI suit.
- gspr 3mo ago> Anthropic and others argue that because LLMs don’t output full copyrighted works word for word - hence their LLMs aren’t infringing on copyright laws. That surely can't be what they argue, because I'm sure I can't translate a copyrighted book into a different language and say "that's fine, it's not word-for-word".