Comment by sholain

+ Once again: 1000 K people coming up with some arbitrary bit of content is already understood in basically every legal regime in the world as 'public domain'.

"Can you explain how you think this works? Can a person's work just automatically become public domain somehow by being too common?"

Please ask ChatGPT for the breakdown but start with this: if someone writes something and does not copyright it, it's already in the 'public domain' and what the other 999 people do does not matter. Moreover, a lot of things are not copyrightable in the first place.

FYI I've worked at Fortune 50 Tech Companies, with 'Legal' and I know how sensitive they are - this is not a concern for them.

It's not a concern for anyone.

'One Person' reproduction -> now that is definitely a concern. That's what this is all about.

+ For OSS I think 20% number may come from those that are explicitly licensed. Out of 'all repos' it's a very tiny amount, of those that have specific licensing details it's closer to 20%. You can verify this yourself just by cruising repos. The breakdown could be different for popular projects, but in the context of AI and IP rights we're more concerned about 'small entities' being overstepped as the more institutional entities may have recourse and protections.

I think the way this will play out is if LLMs are producing material that could be considered infringing, then they'll get sued. If they don't - they won't.

And that's it.

It's why they don't release the training data - it's fully of stuff that is in legal grey area.