Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.

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Using it to (create a tool to) create derivatives of the work on a massive scale.

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I didn’t know those were LLMs, TIL.

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An AI model is not a derivative work. It does not contain the copyrighted expression, just information about the copyrighted expression.

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Wikipedia: In copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work.

I think you may be off a bit on what a derivative work is. I don’t see LLMs spouting out major copyrightable elements of books. They can give a summary sure, but Cliff Notes would like to have a word if you think that’s copyright infringement.

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Well when that happens we have laws. So no problems

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Would you be okay with applying that argument for any crime?

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I would be, and I don’t understand why you think this would be a problem. I wouldn’t want the government to be preventing activities that there weren’t any actual laws prohibiting.

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Ever heard of the early 21st century classic Minority Report

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