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kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

So, instead of providing all our comments for free to LLMs, how about adding a copyright notice to everything we write?

Legally everything you write is already copyrighted, and no notice is required. Creative Commons licenses are a way to reduce the restrictions on what people can do with your content. They don't impose any extra obligations beyond what would exist without any copyright notice at all.

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onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What you say is true, but how are you going to prove anything is copied or scraped and used for commercial purposes? Untraceable copyright violations make copyright worthless.

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- kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My point is that adding the CC notice doesn't make any violations traceable or even less likely. Your comments are just as likely to be scraped with it versus without it. You're not adding any restrictions on the use of the comments; you're just selectively removing some restrictions.
  
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  - onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think you’re missing the “Non Commercial Share Alike” part of the license. Also, when the text is revealed to have a licence, then steps can possibly be taken. If nothing you write has a licence, nothing can possibly be done AFAIK. IANAL though 🤷
    
    To me, it’s not much work to hit Ctrl+V at the end of writing a comment for the eventuality that a training set be forced to be made open.
    
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    
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- HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How does your proposition help with this?
  
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  - onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    However generative AI and large language models have been been spitting out their training data including copyright notices and other stuff verbatim. “poem poem poem to get personal data from ChatGPT”.
    
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    HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    In that case just append a unique string to your comments.
    
    As others have already said, including a Creative Commons license does not make a difference.
    
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