Copyright, AI, and Provenance
O'Reilly on Data
DECEMBER 12, 2023
I can also ask for a reading list about plagues in 16th century England, algorithms for testing prime numbers, or anything else. Yes, it happens to be the next word in Hamlet’s famous soliloquy; but the model wasn’t copying Hamlet, it just picked “or” out of the hundreds of thousands of words it could have chosen, on the basis of statistics.
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