The new copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI comes a week after The New York Times filed a similar complaint in New York.

Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim::The new copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI comes a week after The New York Times filed a similar complaint in New York.

    • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A better question is: Why not?

      If Copyright doesn’t protect what goes in, why should it protect what comes out?

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Because sometimes it spits it out verbatim, and sometimes GPLed code gets spat out in the case of Copilot.

        See: the time Copilot spat out the Quake inverse square root algorithm, comments and all.

        Also, if it’s legal to disregard libre/open source licenses for this, then why isn’t it legal for me to look at leaked code, which I also do not have permission to use, and use the knowledge gained from that to write something else?

        • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Which is exactly why the output of an AI trained on copyrighted inputs should not be copyrightable. It should not become the private property of whichever company owns the language model. That would be bad for a lot more reasons than the potential for laundering open source code.