Comment by rfgplk

21 hours ago

Under current understanding of the law, anything produced purely by LLMs (with no substantive human input, which is what OpenAI claimed in their post) is firmly in the public domain. So OpenAI can "claim" anything they want, it doesn't make it reality. In fact if I were the original authors I would just take their 400k lines of lean proof and relicense it under their own names/terms.

Public domain doesn’t mean anyone can assert copyright. It specifically means no one can.

  • No, it means you can use that work in the creation of new works, which can indeed be copyrighted.

  • also, none of it means anything without the lawyers to back it up. Just like you can be a pedophile in the highest office of democracy and escape persecution.