• ogeist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Not only that, the screenshot in the complaint of writing in the style of an Author is not defendable IMO. If I, a real person, write in JK Rowling style , I’m in no copyright danger.

    Now if I ask the ChatGPT to write pages 1 to 13 and I get the content. Then that is another story.

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      10 months 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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        10 months ago

        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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          10 months ago

          @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.