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> Has the situation changed on AI code legally speaking?

lol,

l m a o,

essentially people who use LLMs have been betting that courts will rule on their favour, because shit would hit the fan if it didn't.

The courts however, have consistently ruled against AI-generated content. It's really only a matter of time until either the bubble bursts, or legislation happens that pops the bubble. Some people here might hope otherwise, of course, depending on reliant they are on the hallucinating LSD-ridden mechanical turks.



> The courts however, have consistently ruled against AI-generated content.

Have they? I only heard of courts ruling it is fair use.


That's different. Courts have ruled on AI training data as being fair use, but whether you can copyright AI-generated content is another issue.

It's pretty unclear to me where this stands right now. In the USA there are high profile examples of the US copyright office saying purely AI-generated artwork isn't protected by copyright: https://www.theverge.com/news/602096/copyright-office-says-a...

But there's clearly a level of human involvement at which that no longer applies. I'm just not sure if that level has been precisely defined.


> The courts however, have consistently ruled against AI-generated content.

No, they haven't consistently “ruled against AI generated content”.

In fact, very few cases involving AI generated content or generative AI systems have made it past preliminary stages, and the rulings that have been reached, preliminary and otherwise, are a mixed bag. Unless you are talking specifically about copyrightability of pure AI content, which is really a pretty peripheral issue.

> It's really only a matter of time until either the bubble bursts, or legislation happens that pops the bubble.

The bubble bursting, as it is certain to do and probably fairly soon, won’t have any significant impact on the trend of AI use, just as the dotcom bubble bursting didn’t on internet use, it will just represent the investment situation reflecting rather than outpacing the reality.

And if you are focusing on an area where, as you say, courts are consistently ruling against AI content, legislation is unlikely to make that worse (but quite plausibly could make it better) for AI.




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