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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not (aifray.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So what I’m understanding is that it’s only piracy if I don’t have an LLM to feed the books to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think what it's saying is that using the books for training is fine, but only if you legally purchased a copy. Downloading the books to avoid paying the author is definitely illegal. So that part of the ruling seems slightly misleading as we knew that part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So can I buy a copy of, say, The Da Vinci Code, use it to train "DaVinci-GPT", a model trained to recite all chapters of the book and distribute that model for free?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Correct. From the ruling you don't pirate the book and from other rulings that I remember, AI output can't be copyrighted on their own. Neat isn't it?