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by monkeybutton 1458 days ago
An interesting exercise would be recreating an entire program/tool that is GPL using copilot and releasing under a less restrictive license. Could one could argue that the effort put into cobbling together a knock-off is enough to constitute an original work?

Running a copyrighted movie through a neural network compression algorithm and uploading it on bittorrent isn't going to stop you from being sued. Even if the output is produced by an AI.
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redox99 1458 days ago
That's probably the right distinction.

If copilot allows you to type

// source code of linux kernel

And you get the whole code, then I would consider it unoriginal

The same way your movie example, if you told it

Avengers Endgame

And it gave you the whole movie, it would also be. But what if you type (like with DallE) Spiderman fighting Thanos and you get something different, but that resembles some Endgame scene. Would that infringe copyright, be fair use, or what?

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Adrox 1458 days ago
Try to publish anything with a character looking like Spiderman, Thanos, IronMan, Captain America and see what Marvel does to you…
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redox99 1458 days ago
There are many videos like that on youtube and they seem to be doing fine

For example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8LvcJoAnms

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UncleMeat 1458 days ago
The law isn't stupid. This is one of the advantages of having humans in the loop. People can and will say "I know what you are doing, knock it off."
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