Large Language Models Meet Copyright Law

Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley)
simons.berkele...
Large Language Models and Transformers
Is ingesting in-copyright works posted on the open internet as training data for building large language models (LLMs) copyright infringement or not? Several lawsuits and law review articles address this question. Those lawsuits are still in early stages and resolution of this fundamental question is likely years off. Beyond litigation, the Copyright Office is expected to ask for comments from interested stakeholders and the public about their views on this question. The Office will issue a report and possibly recommend legislation. If courts decide that ingestion is infringement, they have the power to order the destruction of models trained on this data, although this is discretionary, not mandatory. The stakes for this nascent industry and for researchers in the resolution of this issue could not be greater.

[@miraculixxs]

1:09:02 also researchers should think of their future selves. Your research perspective "anything goes" is probably not your future commercial perspective where you provide for your family

[@joebowbeer]

37:15 "Right now, copyright is the name of the game, and copyright is not about protecting the livelihood of individual creators."

[@miraculixxs]

1:05:00 not all young people think copying others work is just the way to do it. Some young people are authors, musicians, developers and they make a living off of their creations

[@breaktherules6035]

EXCELLENT insights! THANK YOU so much for sharing!

[@brambledemon1232]

Getty and all image-selling companies are going to go out of business. There's no reason to buy them when you can make them for free.

[@joebowbeer]

46:57 Josh Bloch citing.

[@JGLambourne]

10:17 Any further details on the "Notice of inquiry ".

[@emenbeedoubleyou]

It's open now: www.copyright.gov/policy/artificial-intelligence/