• tankplanker@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Difference is for me, if I feed a LLM your work and now it can produce books, music, or art in your style, then yeah its infringement, especially if you monetise that output. Its devaluing your ability to make new and unique content if your work isn’t protected if I can copy your style with a simple prompt for say a recruitment ad for ICE and there is fuck all you can do about it.

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      2 days ago

      and now it can produce books, music, or art in your style, then yeah its infringement

      Seems like the opposite. Keeping the same legal considerations, but replacing LLM with a person

      if I feed an imitator your work and now they can produce books, music, or art in your style, then yeah its infringement

      producing a derivative work with substantial changes (like a new idea) is a classic, time-tested way to produce similar work while upholding copyright. If that’s not infringement when ordinary people do it, then how is that infringement for LLMs?

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        2 days ago

        Not really at all.

        Fifty shades of grey had to change its entire setting and characters to get published. I can’t just produce princess monoke two and not get sued.

        I can’t even sell t shirts with either on via etsy or similar without risk. Yet I could steal studio ghibilis art style with zero talent involved using a llm to advertise my business, seemingly perfectly legal right now.

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        2 days ago

        Which is more capitalistic, giant corporations like Facebook stealing others work and devaluing labour and talnet further or self created content that could be quite easily self published? Its classic big guy verses little guy.

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          2 days ago

          Who’s more likely to have the legal fees to pursue copyright infringement cases, the big corporations who do it all the time stringing people along until they go broke trying to fight them and than go and lobby for another 10 years copyright extension or the poor artist?

          Copyright and IP exist for their benefit, not ours.