dwazou@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoPaul McCartney and Dua Lipa urge UK Prime Minister to rethink his AI copyright plans. A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission. www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square324fedilinkarrow-up1944arrow-down122
arrow-up1922arrow-down1external-linkPaul McCartney and Dua Lipa urge UK Prime Minister to rethink his AI copyright plans. A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission. www.theguardian.comdwazou@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square324fedilink
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoOn the other hand, it is not the learning in your example that is illegal, but the recital. If you learn ten books by heart and make money writing shitty fanfics, thats not necessarily illegal.
minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·2 days agowell yeah. And it has been proven time and again that they can, and do, regurgitate that training material out quite often
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoYup. I don’t think training should be considered breaking copyright. Regurgitating though should. There are examples of use cases besides the right now obvious one of LLMs “creating” “original” content. One that comes to my mind is indexing books. Allowing for people to search for books based on a description.
On the other hand, it is not the learning in your example that is illegal, but the recital.
If you learn ten books by heart and make money writing shitty fanfics, thats not necessarily illegal.
well yeah. And it has been proven time and again that they can, and do, regurgitate that training material out quite often
Yup. I don’t think training should be considered breaking copyright. Regurgitating though should.
There are examples of use cases besides the right now obvious one of LLMs “creating” “original” content.
One that comes to my mind is indexing books. Allowing for people to search for books based on a description.