Microsoft: Copyright law “no more an obstacle to the LLM than it was to the VCR.”

  • lemmyng
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    8 months ago

    An author taking someone else’s work, changing parts of it, and then selling it as new is plagiarism. The only difference is the speed at which the LLM can plagiarize its sources.

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      8 months ago

      Generating new content influenced by someone else is not plagiarism

      • Bo7a
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        8 months ago

        But didn’t you know that if I write in iambic pentameter and make up some flowery words to describe things that don’t already have a definition, I am literally Shakespeare?

      • Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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        8 months ago

        It depends on the level of influence in the new content. There were a number of articles that clearly showed derivative (even stolen) work by using innocuous phrases. For instance, any prompt with “video game” and “plumber” will create an unmistakable clone of Mario.

        I suspect the question will be whether these models could produce similar content without using the original content.