Comment by dessimus
5 months ago
Interesting to see how this plays out. Conceivably if running an LLM over text defeats copyright, it will destroy the book publishing industry, as I could run any ebook thru an LLM to make a new text, like the ~95% regurgitated Harry Potter.
This has already been done via brute force for melodies: https://www.vice.com/en/article/musicians-algorithmically-ge...
Did they listen to their own creation?
If not, maybe it should not constitute a valid case in court.
Also, I'm wondering if they are not themselves liable considering they have every copyrighted work in there too.
You could already do that before LLMs?
Persumably there is already a law around why I cant just go borrow a book from my library, type out some 95% regurgitated varient on my laptop, and then try to publish it somewhere?
Edit: I looked it up and the thing that stops you from publishing a bootleg "Harold Potter and the Wizards Rock" is this legal framework around "The Abstractions Test".
I agree, but I'm not the one claiming that an AI-Assisted rewrite is sufficient enough to now claim that one ignore copyright and change the license.
If enough people do this, then it may speed up the lawmaking process.