AI Researcher Says LLMs and Humans Face Same Copyright Rules
Argues that copyright rules applied to AI should also apply to people who learn online.
Pedro Domingos, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington, tweeted that LLMs cannot be singled out for copyright violations from training on internet data because the same logic would apply to humans. Investor Pete Skomoroch retweeted the statement, emphasizing parallels between AI models and human learners. The argument highlights ongoing debates over whether AI training constitutes infringement when data sources are publicly available online. No legal resolution is mentioned in the sources.
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AI Researcher Says LLMs and Humans Face Same Copyright Rules
Argues that copyright rules applied to AI should also apply to people who learn online.
Pedro Domingos, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington, tweeted that LLMs cannot be singled out for copyright violations from training on internet data because the same logic would apply to humans. Investor Pete Skomoroch retweeted the statement, emphasizing parallels between AI models and human learners. The argument highlights ongoing debates over whether AI training constitutes infringement when data sources are publicly available online. No legal resolution is mentioned in the sources.
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If LLMs are guilty of copyright violation because they learned from the Internet, so are you.
If LLMs are guilty of copyright violation because they learned from the Internet, so are you.