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Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishing corporations, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime created to manage its use of copyrighted material in training data would be too complex and costly to work in practice

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  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    32·
    10 months ago

    The model itself is a derivative work. It’s existence is what is under dispute. It’s not about using the model to produce further works

    • Marcbmann@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      10 months ago

      Then every single student graduating college produces derivative work.

      Everything that required the underlying knowledge gained from the textbooks studied, or research papers read, is derivative work.

      At the core of this, what are we saying? Your machine could only explain calculus because it was provided information from multiple calculus textbooks? Well, that applies to literally everyone.