Microsoft: Copyright law “no more an obstacle to the LLM than it was to the VCR.”
So the real debate is whether training a model counts as copyright infringement. Training an LLM provides it with the means to create similar content. Does a prospective author reading around his topic of interest not do the same? The only real difference is the speed at which derived works can be created
Cagi@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
For profit company is using copyrighted material it doesn’t own to build a product. People at home recording TV shows for later viewing is not the same.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
From a moral point of view, maybe. But laws are mostly written by those same for profit companies, and those laws are what will decide the case. Courts already ruled that LLM works are transformative, not copies.