US novelist Michael Chabon and several other writers are the latest to file a proposed class action accusing OpenAI of copyright infringement - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    @ogeist the point of the screenshot is simply to prove that the AI has clearly been fed the entire work.

    This lawsuit isn’t about output.

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      Of course, this is about the grey area of AI. But how is the copyright infringed? Yes, the AI was fed the book, how is that different if I read the book and began writing in his style, because i have read the book, with my own different story? As in the example given.

      What if the AI was only fed 50% of the books?

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        @ogeist The copyright infringement (if any) will be at the point of copying and distributing the book.

        For example if I went out and photocopied this guy’s entire novel and stapled it together and gave it to you, that’s technically copyright infringement.

        Has nothing to do with what you or I write ourselves subsequently except if what we write proves that I must have copied the book and illegally distributed it then that could be evidence.

        Plagiarism is not the only kind of copyright infringement.