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by sqquima 18 days ago
I think that the new version of this is using your work's LLM account (potentially more powerful) to do personal work
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That seems absolutely crazy to do. One could argue that the marginal cost to work for using a work laptop is zero and the work is still yours (still beyond the risk I’m willing to take). Using a company’s AI account is literally using the company’s resources for a personal project. There is no plausible case where they don’t own it.
> Using a company’s AI account is literally using the company’s resources for a personal project. There is no plausible case where they don’t own it.

Honestly, of the two scenarios, this one is the more likely to fall on the employee's side.

We haven't really tested the legal precedent for ownership of LLM outputs very thoroughly yet, and I'm willing to bet a bunch of us still have employment contracts that haven't been updated to cover LLM use...

That potentially consumes a lot more resources than the very negligible marginal wear and tear that using a work computer would cause.
There was a brief moment in all the hullabaloo that this went unnoticed :X