Annemarie Bridy (@[email protected])
mastodon.lawprofs.org
Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use - Association of Research Libraries https://www.arl.org/blog/training-generative-ai-models-on-copyrighted-works-is-fair-use/

I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here.

please argue. please do not remove.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    5•5 months ago

    are you saying that selling a book that has the same characters as a recently released book doing the same things but with wording differences is somehow fair use? Like a book called Harry Potter and the Something Rock with the exact same plot points but worded slightly different is fair use?

    no. I was saying selling an AI model or access to it that is capable of producing that work is not, itself, copyright infringement.

    in fact, do you know what a clean room is? if I provided to a writing team every English language work except those written by JK Rowling and it produced a work exactly like you’re describing, The resultant work would not be infringing copyright. it should not be any different for AI where you cannot prove what materials it was provided.

    • snooggums
      2•5 months ago

      Copyright doesn’t care if the writer is unaware of the source material because intent doesn’t matter.