Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?"
Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 months ago“Changing the order of words” is what it does? That’s news to me. And do you have examples of it “using the exact same words as other things” without prompt manipulation?
asret@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Why does the prompting matter? If I “prompt” a band to play copyrighted music does that mean they get a free pass?
stewsters@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you passed them a sheet of music I’d say that’s on you, it would be your responsibility to not sell recordings of them playing it.
Just like if I typed the first chapter of Harry Potter into word it is not Microsoft’s intent was to breach copyright, it would have been my intent to make it do it. It would be my responsibility not to sell that first chapter.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s not a very good analogy because the band would be reproducing an entire work of art which an LLM does not and cannot. And by prompt manipulation I mean purposely making it seem like the LLM is doing something it wouldn’t do on its own. The operating word is seem, which is what I meant by manipulation. The prompting here is irrelevant, but how it’s done is. So unless The Times releases the steps they used to get ChatGPT to output what it did, you can’t really claim that that’s what it does.