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Make illegally trained LLMs public domain as punishment (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In the case of Stable Diffusion, they used 5 billion images to train a model 1.83 gigabytes in size. So if you reduce a copyrighted image to 3 bits (not bytes - bits), then yeah, I think you're probably pretty safe.

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Your calculation is assuming that the input images are statistically independent, which is certainly not the case (otherwise the model would be useless for generating new images)

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

Of course it's silly. Of course the images are not statistically independent, that's the point. There are still people to this day who claim that stable diffusion and its ilk are producing "collages" of their training images, please tell this to them.

The way that these models work is by learning patterns from their training material. They learn styles, shapes, meanings. None of those things are covered by copyright.