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It's not theft (lemmy.world)
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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and now it can produce books, music, or art in your style, then yeah its infringement

Seems like the opposite. Keeping the same legal considerations, but replacing LLM with a person

if I feed an imitator your work and now they can produce books, music, or art in your style, then yeah its infringement

producing a derivative work with substantial changes (like a new idea) is a classic, time-tested way to produce similar work while upholding copyright. If that's not infringement when ordinary people do it, then how is that infringement for LLMs?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not really at all.

    Fifty shades of grey had to change its entire setting and characters to get published. I can't just produce princess monoke two and not get sued.

    I can't even sell t shirts with either on via etsy or similar without risk. Yet I could steal studio ghibilis art style with zero talent involved using a llm to advertise my business, seemingly perfectly legal right now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You never hear music in a show or movie that sounds like a shitty knock-off of popular music to comply with copyrights? It happens a lot.

    "Princess Mononoke 2" would copy a bit more than merely style: characters, setting, theme, story, expression.

    Imitating mere style (like Ghibli) for something substantially different was legal before just as it is now for human or LLM. I think people like you are throwing fits because they never realized it (or cared) until LLMs started doing what skilled people were already doing long before.

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