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George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)
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[–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Generative AI training is not the same thing as human inspiration. And transformative work has this far has only been performed by a human. Not by a machine used by a human.

Clearly using a machine that simply duplicates a work to resell runs afoul of copyright.

What about using a machine that slightly rewords that work? Is that still allowed? Or a machine that does a fairly significant rewording? What if it sort of does a mashup of two works? Or a mashup of a dozen? Or of a thousand?

Under what conditions does it become ok to feed a machine with someone's art (without their permission) and sell the resulting output?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    That's the point, it's almost a ship of Theseus situation.

    At what point does the work become its own compared to a copy? How much variation is required? How many works are needed for sampling before its designing information based on large scale sentence structures instead of just copying exactly what it's reading?

    Legislation can't occur until a benchmark is reached or we just say wholesale that AI is copyright infringement based purely on its existence and training.

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