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by amarant 58 days ago
I could possibly see an argument for the owner being whoever paid for the tokens used, but honestly I think the argument for that is weaker than what you're suggesting; I'm merely playing devil's advocate here.

I don't think there's even a valid argument for any other ownership model, or at least none that I can think of.
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jmaw 58 days ago
I see the argument for whoever paid for the tokens. Or in the case of a free AI usage, the person who sent the prompt (or whoever they are acting on behalf of, i.e. the company they are working for at the time).

The primary issue being that it's all built on stolen data in the first place.

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pc86 58 days ago
Even taking the least generous interpretation of what LLMs do and saying they're just "copy/pasting others' code" it's still not stealing because the original still exists and presumably still makes money. The original has to be gone for theft to have occurred.

In order to have a sane conversation about this we have to all agree not to lie.

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