Comment by simoncion
1 hour ago
> Do you have many examples of this actually happening that you could share?
If by "this" you mean "an LLM [reproducing] copyrighted material", I have one here [0], with the challenge posed and plagiarized response at [1], found via [2].
One wonders how often the "Don't plagiarize, make no mistakes about this!" instruction fails and the LLMs include nontrivial chunks of other people's work into what they emit.
[0] <https://infosec.exchange/@zzt@mas.to/117134157775929932>
[1] <https://mas.to/@zzt/117122289150514171>
[2] <https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117134446424182178>
> If by "this" you mean "an LLM [reproducing] copyrighted material
No. I have absolutely no doubt that happens, and I'm not defending it or encouraging it.
My point is whilst it technically might be illegal and happening all the time, if it's unenforceable or sets a precedence that would severely break the business world, there's every chance nobody would dare bring it to a court room.
I'm not aware of it happening yet (someone trying to enforce copyright on code that was put in production via an LLM) and I would have thought if it did, we would all know about the precedence now.