Re: Capy: Request for endorsements

On 2/20/26 13:06, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> Clearly the person who gives the prompt has no copyright claim.  On the other
>> hand, I can trivially write an "AI" program that regurgitates its exact training
>> data, even if its internal model looks nothing like the training data.  If I "train"
>> this "AI" on the Star Wars movie, does this means I can use it to create a
>> copyright-free copy of Star Wars?
> 
> No. But if you train it on one million Star Wars-like films, and then generate
> a film that is like them, but isn't a copy of any of them, then that generated
> film is - this is the argument - not a derived work.

In other words: if you kill a man, you're a murderer.  If you kill a 
million, you're a conqueror.

> That's because compression works by identifying common patterns, and
> the common patterns aren't copyrightable. (Because if they were, all
> these one million films would all infringe on one another's copyright.)

No, the process is fundamentally different, and it's the process that 
matters in copyright, not the result.

If I, by pure coincidence, write a book that's word-for-word identical 
to a book that already exists but I haven't read, then I haven't 
violated copyright because I haven't copied or transformed the original 
work.

If I take an existing picture and apply filters to it until it is 
unrecognizable, then I have legally created a derivative work that is 
still under the original copyright.


-- 
Rainer Deyke - [email protected]

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