Comment by JimDabell
6 months ago
> The goal of companies creating these LLMs is to supersede the use of source material they draw from, like books.
Nobody is going to stop buying Harry Potter books because they can get an LLM to spit out ~50 words from one of the books. The proportionality factor is very clearly relevant here.
> If LLM companies are allowed to produce market substitutes of original works
Did Meta publish a book written by an LLM?
> The goal of copyright, under US law, is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts".
I would consider training LLMs to be very much in line with those goals.
> Nobody is going to stop buying Harry Potter books because they can get an LLM to spit out ~50 words from one of the books.
Not yet, but they'll stop buying books on niche technical subjects.
> Did Meta publish a book written by an LLM?
They don't need to publish a book to substitute original works. They substitute the original work every time they generate a response that is based on the book they substituted.
> I would consider training LLMs to be very much in line with those goals.
Because you're misunderstanding the premise. Original works are the ones that advance art and science. Those are the ones that are supposed to be protected by copyright.