Comment by Aerroon

21 hours ago

He's making a point about responsibility/liability.

If you only get copyright for the prompt you make, but not the output, then it's like being responsible only for the prompt, but not the output.

Ie he's only responsible for pushing the boulder up the hill. The fact that it rolled down from the hill and crushed someone's house "isn't his fault" (he doesn't get copyright on it).

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generic92034  20 hours ago

That is not how responsibility works anywhere. If you are stealing a gun and murder someone with that gun, you are still responsible, even if it is not your gun.

jacquesm  20 hours ago

Well, you are responsible for the consequences. Liability is simply a different thing than copyright.

  • Aerroon  20 hours ago

    The copyright office says that you don't get copyright because you're not considered the author:

    https://www.copyright.gov/ai/

    >The Office concludes that, given current generally available technology, prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an AI system the authors of the output. Prompts essentially function as instructions that convey unprotectible ideas. While highly detailed prompts could contain the user’s desired expressive elements, at present they do not control how the AI system processes them in generating the output.

    If you're not the author then why would you have to be liable for it?

    • jacquesm  19 hours ago

      > If you're not the author then why would you have to be liable for it?

      If you do not understand this make sure that you always operate within a framework of people who do because this soft of misunderstanding can cause you a world of grief.

      Because you are the person shipping it, and as such regular liability applies. If I'm not the author of a book, and make a lot of copies and distribute those I'm liable for the content of that book, regardless of whether or not I hold the copyright to it. Conversely, if the original author sues because they feel their work infringes then that too is a liability that stems from the distribution.

      And 'distribution' is a pretty wide term, not unlike 'interstate commerce', lots of things that you might not consider to be distribution can be classified as such in court.

      Different laws do not come in packages, they apply individually, and sometimes they apply collectively but it isn't a menu where you can pick the combination that you think makes the most sense.

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