> LLMs don’t output full copyrighted works word for word
replyApparently they do, as per the evidence in the NYT vs OpenAI suit.
Isn’t the output of LLMs completely copyright-free in the US?
replyOne lower court has said that the output of AI models is uncopyrightable.
replyBut the real unsettled issue is if model training is fair use, and where copyright infringement might creep in to model output.
The copyright office itself also says this when it talks about determining authorship.
reply> Anthropic and others argue that because LLMs don’t output full copyrighted works word for word - hence their LLMs aren’t infringing on copyright laws.
replyThat surely can't be what they argue, because I'm sure I can't translate a copyrighted book into a different language and say "that's fine, it's not word-for-word".