Comment on Apertus: Switzerland government release a fully open, transparent, multilingual language LLM
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 days agoI don’t know any European country that has anything like the copyright clause in the US Constitution, or anything close to Fair Use. I don’t see the argument.
There’s a good chance that European AI companies like Mistral are breaking the law. We will have to see how it eventually goes in court. Recently, there was a decision in a Munich court against OpenAI. By that standard, even Apertus might be in trouble. But I doubt that decision will stand.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 days ago
Well yes you’d need to go country by country to truly make an analysis. Maybe I’m talking more about enforcement than actual law, but as someone who has lived half his life on each continent, it’s much easier to get away with copyright infringement on the personal level in Europe.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Probably. Different countries in Europe have very different traditions there. I think the former socialist countries are still more relaxed. But the EU-line is rather dominated by countries like Germany.
Come to think of it. Switzerland officially takes a very lenient approach. It’s legal to download media files for personal use. But as you can see here, that leaves research and business hanging.