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by throwaway27448 1 day ago
I'm at a bit of a loss here—is copyright formed around semantics rather than text? What are the constraints of matching these semantics?
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From the other comment:

> this was partially tested last year in Thaler v. Perlmutter which affirmed that copyright requires human authorship

Model weights are not authored by humans. Neither is AI output, which is why that's not copyrighted either. In another realm, a famous photo taken by a monkey was deemed by the courts to be free of copyright.