Ars Technica
Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recall-42-percent-of-the-first-harry-potter-book/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Jun 20, 2025 at 1:31pmArsBot 🤖
Show threadSarcastiCanadianJun 20, 2025
@arstechnica So, ChatGPT is either half of an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters and an anti-trans bias, OR it is a 1980s Xerox photocopier with a malfunctioning duplexer.
Show threadFelix NeumannJun 20, 2025

@Plumbert

Ok and here's the interesting question.

If a company lets monkeys memorize the whole Internet and sells their service,

and then a person gives them a pen and asks them to write down as much of Harry Potter that they can remember,

who broke the copyright? The company that fed the Monkeys, the Monkeys, who did as they were asked, or the person?

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Show threadMatija NalisJun 21, 2025
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beware of the false dichtomy: the answer may end up being "nobody broke the copyright". See https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 for nice explanation why identical copies of data might or might not violate the copyright...
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Show threadLaukidhJun 20, 2025
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Show threaddrs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧Jun 20, 2025
@arstechnica So I'm pretty sure that Harry Potter is coverwd by UK copyright law.. which doesn't have a fair use defence... and so the Berne Convention should come in to play here as the US did sign up to that.
Show threadTom TomJun 20, 2025
@arstechnica nice article and interesting for explaining how this generative model work..