| "training a model on the same dataset in the same way usually gives more or less the same model, even if the weights are completely different each time." Couldn't you use a similar type of argument to say that different implementations of the same software API are basically the same software even though the instructions are completely different each time? And, since they do the same thing (aka compatible), that software implementations can't be subject to copyright for that reason? I don't think that holds up, esp in a pro-copyright country. Here's one I came up with in case your lawyers can use it. My original goal was a license for proprietary content to be used in LLM's where the creators were worried about verbatim extraction or whether their content was sufficiently mixed in with other data. It was about motivating them to let us train on such data. I'll start with those terms: "1. Percentage of total data. The copywritten work must not be larger than N% of total, training data put into a model. If it's tiny enough, one might be able to argue it only adds so much weigh to the outputs. What if it's the only data of its type, though? 2. Merged with similar data. The copywritten work must be one of multiple examples of the same types of data. For instance, there might be many examples given to the model about what files are, how to generate them, doing it in Python, and specific examples in Python. When it generates Python code, any or all of this might have contributed to it. 3. Ratio of data, set size to number of parameters. The content owners might want the training data to exceed the number of parameters by a multiplier N. For instance, at least 10GB or 100GB going into a 1G model. The multiplier is 10. 4. Diverse data. The content owner might want a wide range of data on many topics to go into the model. They might even specify certain data sets, a minimum number of topics, or even a number of word vectors per word used (their keywords). Once again, the odds the model is just repeating one piece of data goes down as the number of data and similar words in the model goes up." So, basically you'd be trying to set a standard where anything the model creators legally have access to that they can put into their LLM's. Are the LLM's then carrying their I.P. or something novel? If novel, we're safe from lawsuits. If LLM's and outputs are not copyrightable, we'd be double safe in that situation.So, maybe use criteria like the above to decide what's novel where anything within certain numbers or combinations would be novel automatically by law or court precedent. What do you think? |