A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.

  • Ram@lemmy.ramram.ink
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    1 year ago

    US Courts have already ruled in the past that human authorship is required for copyright. It’d be a logical conclusion as such that human authorship would also be required to justify a fair use defence. You providing a summary without any quotations would likely justify fair use - which is still copyright infringement, but a mere defence of said infringement. A machine or algorithm that cannot perform the act of creative authorship would thus not be exempted by the fair use defence.