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'Reading my book infringes on my copyright.' say confused writers.
This is a strawman.
You cannot act as though feeding LLMs data is remotely comparable to reading.
Why not?
Because reading is an inherently human activity.
An LLM consuming data from a training model is not.
LLMs forcing us to take a look at ourselves and see if we're really that special.
I don't think we are.
For now, we're special.
LLMs are far more training data-intensive, hardware-intensive, and energy-intensive than a human brain. They're still very much a brute-force method of getting computers to work with language.
Because the LLM is also outputting the copyrighted material.
So could any human that got inspired by something...