Comment by noboostforyou
9 months ago
For that argument I believe the question becomes "is the output of a model considered a derivative work of the training data?"
9 months ago
For that argument I believe the question becomes "is the output of a model considered a derivative work of the training data?"
What else could it be?
An original composition based on a statistical analysis of the training data. Statistical data about a copyrighted work obviously isn't necessarily a derivative of that work. Otherwise Tolkien could sue me for telling you how many times The Lord of the Rings uses the word "the".
Can it reproduce training data? Then its not analysis but compression, lossy compression.
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The industry is banking on Author's Guild v. Google to be precedent in such a way that it's functionally transformative enough to be a completely new work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
I think they have about a coin flip of a chance that it passes muster in the courts.