LLMs cannot create copyrightable works. Only humans can do that [0]. So LLMs are not making new copyrightable works.

[0] not because we're so amazingly more creative. But because copyright is a legal invention, not something derived from first principles, and has been defined to only apply to human creations. It could be changed to apply to LLM output in the future.

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SilasX 3 days ago | parent [-]

What is that replying to? I don’t see the relevance to my comment.

	▲	marcus_holmes 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Once we accept that simply "learning from previous copyrighted works to make new ones" is "infringement" It's not, because LLMs are not making new copyrightable works. To make a copyrightable work you must put some creative act into it. Just copying someone else's work does not enable you to claim copyright. But LLMs cannot put creative work into their works, because only humans are capable of copyrightable creation - so therefore it is infringing.