[scjody]

Even the anthropomorphism argument doesn't hold up under close scrutiny. When I was in high school I was asked to memorize several poems, including a few that are under copyright today. If I regurgitate one of these poems and present it as my own, this clearly infringes copyright, even if I no longer recall where the poem came from or who wrote it.

How is what OpenAI is doing with NYT stories any different, other than the architecture and substrate of the neural network?

[kromem]

Was your memorizing it infringement?

I'm all for policing the outputs of generative models and enforcing copyright on their usage.

I am very much against ruling that their training is infringement.

A model which uses old NYT articles to learn the relationship between words and concepts which turns around and is used to identify potentially falsified research papers for review should not be prevented from existing.

If the model is used to reproduce copyrighted material - by all means the person running it should be liable.

This would create a ML industry around copyright identification as a pre filter before outputting (ironically requiring training on copyrighted material to enforce).