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    16 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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      26 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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        15 days ago

        You never hear music in a show or movie that sounds like a shitty knock-off of popular music to comply with copyrights? It happens a lot.

        “Princess Mononoke 2” would copy a bit more than merely style: characters, setting, theme, story, expression.

        Imitating mere style (like Ghibli) for something substantially different was legal before just as it is now for human or LLM. I think people like you are throwing fits because they never realized it (or cared) until LLMs started doing what skilled people were already doing long before.

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        15 days ago

        Even killing children may be legal if it is profitable, they will even be used to cook food, well, that’s just for comparison, one thing is cannibalism of the flesh, another is cannibalism of the soul in the case of art.