alt Hacker NewsInteresting to see how this plays out. Conceivably if running an LLM over text defeats copyright, it will destroy the book publishing industry, as I could run any ebook thru an LLM to make a new text, like the ~95% regurgitated Harry Potter.
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kingstnap • yesterday at 10:47 AM
You could already do that before LLMs?
Persumably there is already a law around why I cant just go borrow a book from my library, type out some 95% regurgitated varient on my laptop, and then try to publish it somewhere?
Edit: I looked it up and the thing that stops you from publishing a bootleg "Harold Potter and the Wizards Rock" is this legal framework around "The Abstractions Test".
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amelius • yesterday at 10:43 AM
If enough people do this, then it may speed up the lawmaking process.
This has already been done via brute force for melodies: https://www.vice.com/en/article/musicians-algorithmically-ge...