Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago…no?
That’s exactly what the ruling prohibits - it’s fair use to train AI models on any copies of books that you legally acquired, but never when those books were illegally acquired, as was the case with the books that Anthropic used in their training here.
This satirical torrent client would be violating the laws just as much as one without any slow training built in.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
But if one person buys a book, trains an “AI model” to recite it, then distributes that model we good?
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I don’t think anyone would consider complete verbatim recitement of the material to be anything but a copyright violation, being the exact same thing that you produce.
Fair use requires the derivative work to be transformative, and no transformation occurs when you verbatim recite something.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
“Recite the complete works of Shakespeare but replace every thirteenth thou with this”
pupbiru@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
existing copyright law covers exactly this. if you were to do the same, it would also not be fair use or transformative
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I’d be impressed with any model that succeeds with that, but assuming one does, the complete works of Shakespeare are not copyright protected - they have fallen into the public domain since a very long time ago.
For any works still under copyright protection, it would probably be a case of a trial to determine whether a certain work is transformative enough to be considered fair use. I’d imagine that this would not clear that bar.