I think it's critically important to be very specific about what LLMs are "able to do" vs what they tend to do in practice.
The argument is that the initial training data is sufficiently altered and "transformed" so as not to be breaking copyright. If the model is capable of reproducing the majority of the book unaltered, then we know that is not the case. Whether or not it's easy to access is irrelevant. The fact that the people performing the study had to "jailbreak" the models to get past checks tells you that the model's creators are very aware that the model is very capable of producing an un-transformed version of the copyrighted work.
From the end-user's perspective, if the model is sufficiently gated from distributing copyrighted works, it doesn't matter what it's inherently capable of, but the argument shouldn't be "the model isn't breaking the law" it should be "we have a staff of people working around the clock to make sure the model doesn't try to break the law."
Back in 2010, one of the earliest games for the iPad was Scrabble. Each person needed their own iPhone to hold their tiles and they could flick them off their phone onto the board which was the iPad. It was mocked because nobody wanted to shell out $3000 for hardware to play a $25 board game.
I wish this was a real law. Stayed at the Omni Parker House in Boston recently which is allegedly haunted by the ghost of Charles Dickens because he lived there for like a year.
But he didn't die there. I feel like his ghost has better places to be than the flat he shacked up in while visiting the States that one time.
There being a link doesn’t prove anything. These things pop up all the time claiming to pay people to come to a protest or whatever. Let me know when a single person posts about getting paid.
I think it's critically important to be very specific about what LLMs are "able to do" vs what they tend to do in practice.
The argument is that the initial training data is sufficiently altered and "transformed" so as not to be breaking copyright. If the model is capable of reproducing the majority of the book unaltered, then we know that is not the case. Whether or not it's easy to access is irrelevant. The fact that the people performing the study had to "jailbreak" the models to get past checks tells you that the model's creators are very aware that the model is very capable of producing an un-transformed version of the copyrighted work.
From the end-user's perspective, if the model is sufficiently gated from distributing copyrighted works, it doesn't matter what it's inherently capable of, but the argument shouldn't be "the model isn't breaking the law" it should be "we have a staff of people working around the clock to make sure the model doesn't try to break the law."