Comment by KoolKat23
6 months ago
Copyright is concerned with the the actual physical copy. The model isn't this. The end user would have to carefully prompt the models algorithm to output a copyright infringing piece.
This argument is more along the lines of: blaming Microsoft Word for someone typing characters into the word processors algorithm, and outputting a copy of an existing book. (Yes, it is a lot easier, but the rationale is the same). In my mind the end user prompting the model would be the one potentially infringing.
FWIW, I don’t think there is a prompt that would reliably produce, verbatim, a copyrighted work.
I do think that a big part of the reason Anthropic downloaded millions of books from pirate torrents was because they needed that input data in order to generate the output, their product.
I don’t know what that is, but, IMHO, not sharing those dollars with the creators of the content is clearly wrong.