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Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa urge UK Prime Minister to rethink his AI copyright plans. A new law could soon allow AI companies to use copyrighted material without permission. (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

if i learn a book by heart, and then go around making money by reciting it, then that's illegal. same thing.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On the other hand, it is not the learning in your example that is illegal, but the recital.

If you learn ten books by heart and make money writing shitty fanfics, thats not necessarily illegal.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

well yeah. And it has been proven time and again that they can, and do, regurgitate that training material out quite often

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yup. I don't think training should be considered breaking copyright. Regurgitating though should.

There are examples of use cases besides the right now obvious one of LLMs "creating" "original" content.

One that comes to my mind is indexing books. Allowing for people to search for books based on a description.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s not what AI is doing though. A better analogy using your book example would be learning a book by heart, then going and writing a new book in that same style.

Is that illegal? No.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but that's not what they're doing when they're spitting out open source code verbatim, with no attribution or license