Comment by _alternator_
12 hours ago
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. GP was referring to the use of copyrighted material to train LLMs.
12 hours ago
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. GP was referring to the use of copyrighted material to train LLMs.
Which is not "theft" according to current legal precedent, and also common sense.
Download a book and you are a thief
Download 1 million books and you are OpenAI
What? HN has always praised Library Genesis for example.
2 replies →
Hunting an animal would be considered ok by most, but scaling it to the point of damage is not ok according to most.
It is theft under common sense.
Only in the sense that you reading a book from the library also constitutes theft of knowledge. Does it?
4 replies →
1. using copyrighted material to train LLMs is fair use, not theft
2. The topic we are dissussing concerns LLMs being trained on logs from previous LLM chats. If you're prompting a model and it spits out some unique mathematical insight, you do not have copyright on that.