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This reminds me of Peter Sunde's "komimashin"

https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-21-peter-sunde-kopimashin.h...

It's obviously absurd to enforce copyright as bytes are copied around instead of as it is used. Training an LLM is a different thing than re-hosting and giving away copies to other people.

If you don't want people to transform your works - keep them private. You don't own ideas.



As the article says, Meta /was/ giving away copies to other people by seeding the libgen torrents. This isn't the usual case of "should companies be allowed to train on books".


Then it's a simple case of a rights holder taking them to court.

What's the fuss about LLM training in this thread then?


Thanks for the link. I wondered what that word meant.

From the article: Kopimashin, as in Copy Machine.




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