Comment by realusername

> Hmm, training on a book’s text smears the content all over the weights, merging it with all other texts. The original text isn’t intentionally supposed to be reproducible in any larger part (although IIRC models were able to emit fairly large chunks verbatim).

I agree with that, however that doesn't make the output copyrightable then.

I think these AI companies live in a legal fantasy where they can take any content they want, put it into the mixer without caring about copyright and then what comes out of it is somehow copyrighted.

They have to pick one or the other, either the content copyright tains the model or it doesn't but the model isn't subject to copyright.

> those are human expectation models, something like how we train animals or teach our own.

But more importantly, made by machines, and one of the requirements for copyright is the human factor.