American law has become a literal fucking joke (IAAL). I could’ve guessed the could get the outcome of this case without any facts: the huge corporation wins over authors. American law is no longer capable of holding major corporations to account, so we need a new legal system—one that’s actually functional.
But the actual process of an AI system distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text qualified as “fair use” under U.S. copyright law because it was “quintessentially transformative,” Alsup wrote.
Thats the actual argument and the judge is right here. LLMs are transformative in every sense of the word. The technology is even called “transformers”.
American law has become a literal fucking joke (IAAL). I could’ve guessed the could get the outcome of this case without any facts: the huge corporation wins over authors. American law is no longer capable of holding major corporations to account, so we need a new legal system—one that’s actually functional.
Thats the actual argument and the judge is right here. LLMs are transformative in every sense of the word. The technology is even called “transformers”.
Fallacious argument.
Something that can’t generate wine glass full to the brim without a band-aid fix is far from “transformative.” Even if it were:
More like obfuscated plagiarism.