As much as I want to be on the AI industries side here. rumours of chatgpt producing verbatim copies of NYT articles kinda suggests its still going to apply to the output.
Obviously, there is a difference between training AI and using AI.
Its very hard to make a case that training AI breaches copyright in any way.
But its copyright 101 that if what that AI spits out after isn't transformative the AI retailer is getting hefty fines.
not rumors, in legal docs, I haven't read the docs yet but someone else wrote a post claiming they were primed with several paragraphs of the article (I'm not sure what to believe, but the screenshots were disturbing)
(n.b. this is a complex problem and the scenario isn't quite so simple, if I hire an artist that creates work with a copyrighted figure / use a site that gives me random images it created that I know to sometimes replicate copyrighted figures, its not the artist / site / even me having the image in my possession that's a problem)
Obviously, there is a difference between training AI and using AI.
Its very hard to make a case that training AI breaches copyright in any way.
But its copyright 101 that if what that AI spits out after isn't transformative the AI retailer is getting hefty fines.