Is it legal to use copyrighted works to train LLMs?(www.spinellis.gr)
2 pointsby cratermoon7 months ago3 comments
  • akagusu7 months ago
    I think the real question is if it is legal to use unlicensed (not paid or pirated) copyrighted works to trains LLMs.

    Because if they rule that is legal, I think the same principle should apply to humans as well.

  • Flundstrom27 months ago
    Is it legal to teach kids and authors to write, by having them read lots of books?

    Reading a lot is a well-known strategy to become better at writing. Thus, I argue that any reasonably skilled LLM that use the scraped text as input, but not produce verbatim copies, should not be considered as violating IP law.

    • cratermoon7 months ago
      That 'reasonably skilled LLM' is bearing a lot of the load. LLMs aren't 'skilled'. An LLM is a mathematical and computational construction, created through a mathematical transformation of input text and tokens. The people creating those models are using the text, not reading it, and no one is truly "reading" or "learning" from it.
  • 7 months ago
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