Fortunately copyright depends on publication, so the text simply pre-existing somewhere won't ruin everything.
Unless you don't like copyright, in which case it's "unfortunately."
Comment on OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 8 months agoI wonder how far “ai is regurgitating existing articles” vs “infinite monkeys on a keyboard will go”. This isn’t at you personally, your comment just reminded me of this for some reason
Have you seen library of babel? Heres your comment in the library, which has existed well before you ever typed it (excluding punctuation)
libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?ygsk_iv_cyquqwru…
If all text that can ever exist, already exists, how can any single person own a specific combination of letters?
FaceDeer@kbin.social 8 months ago
SheeEttin@programming.dev 8 months ago
That is not correct. Copyright subsists in all original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102
Legally, when you write your shopping list, you instantly have the rights to that work, no publication or registration necessary. You can choose to publish it later, or not at all, but you still own the rights. Someone can’t break into your house, look at your unpublished works, copy them, and publish them like they’re their originals.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They don’t own it, they just own exclusive rights to make copies. If you reach the exact same output without making a copy then you’re in the clear.