> The copilot team rushed to slap a copyright filter on top to keep these verbatim examples from showing up, and now claims they never happen.
Well if the copyright filter is working they indeed aren't happening. Putting in safe gaurds to prevent something from happening doesn't mean you're guilty of it. Putting a railing on a balcony doesn't imply the balcony with railing is unsafe.
> LLMs are prone to paraphrasing. Just because you filter out verbatim copies doesn't mean there isn't still copyright infringement/plagiarism/whatever you want to call it
Copyright infringement and plagerism are different things. Stuff can be copyright infringement without being plagerized, and can be plagerized without being copyright infringement. The two concepts are similar but should not be conflated, especially in a legal context.
Courts decide based on laws, not on gut feeling about what is "fair".
> They clearly know the problem is real
They know the risk is real. That is not the same thing as saying that they actually comitted copyright infringement.
A risk of something happening is not the same as actually doing the thing.
> "Ner ner ner ner ner, you can't prove it to a boomer judge".
Its always a cop-out to assume that they lost the argument because the judge didn't understand. I suspect the judge understood just fine but the law and the evidence simply wasn't on their side.
> Well if the copyright filter is working they indeed aren't happening. Putting in safe gaurds to prevent something from happening doesn't mean you're guilty of it. Putting a railing on a balcony doesn't imply the balcony with railing is unsafe.
Doesn't mean you weren't, at some point, guilty of it, either. It doesn't retcon things.
Sure, which is why we require evidence of wrong doing. Otherwise its just a witch hunt.
After all, you yourself probably cannot prove that you didn't commit the same offense at some point in time in the past. Like Russel's teapot, its almost always impossible to disprove something like that.
Well if the copyright filter is working they indeed aren't happening. Putting in safe gaurds to prevent something from happening doesn't mean you're guilty of it. Putting a railing on a balcony doesn't imply the balcony with railing is unsafe.
> LLMs are prone to paraphrasing. Just because you filter out verbatim copies doesn't mean there isn't still copyright infringement/plagiarism/whatever you want to call it
Copyright infringement and plagerism are different things. Stuff can be copyright infringement without being plagerized, and can be plagerized without being copyright infringement. The two concepts are similar but should not be conflated, especially in a legal context.
Courts decide based on laws, not on gut feeling about what is "fair".
> They clearly know the problem is real
They know the risk is real. That is not the same thing as saying that they actually comitted copyright infringement.
A risk of something happening is not the same as actually doing the thing.
> "Ner ner ner ner ner, you can't prove it to a boomer judge".
Its always a cop-out to assume that they lost the argument because the judge didn't understand. I suspect the judge understood just fine but the law and the evidence simply wasn't on their side.