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>>ssgodd+(OP)
Even if they win against openAI, how would this prevent something like a Chinese or Russian LLM from “stealing” their content and making their own superior LLM that isnt weakened by regulation like the ones in the United States.

And I say this as someone that is extremely bothered by how easily mass amounts of open content can just be vacuumed up into a training set with reckless abandon and there isn’t much you can do other than put everything you create behind some kind of authentication wall but even then it’s only a matter of time until it leaks anyway.

Pandora’s box is really open, we need to figure out how to live in a world with these systems because it’s an un winnable arms race where only bad actors will benefit from everyone else being neutered by regulation. Especially with the massive pace of open source innovation in this space.

We’re in a “mutually assured destruction” situation now, but instead of bombs the weapon is information.

>>dissid+B6
All of this can be true (I don’t think it necessarily is, but for the sake of argument), but it’s legally irrelevant: the court is not going to decide copyright infringement cases based on geopolitical doctrines.

Courts don’t decide cases based on whether infringement can occur again, they decide them based on the individual facts of the case. Or equivalently: the fact that someone will be murdered in the future does not imply that your local DA should not try their current murder cases.

>>woodru+6a
The issue here is that the case law is not settled at all and there is no clear consensus on whether OpenAI is violating any copyright laws. In novel cases like this where the courts essentially have to invent new legal doctrines, I think the implications of the decision carries a tremendous amount of weight with the judges and justices who have to make that decision.