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

  • Grimy@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Generating new content influenced by someone else is not plagiarism

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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.