Greg Hogan <[email protected]> writes:
> LLM output is licensable so your concerns are allayed.
The jury is very much still out on that:
- this has yet to be decided on by courts
- even if one particular jurisdiction decides on this matter, there are
*many* more relevant jurisdictions
- and even if suddenly all jurisdictions were to agree on some specific
copyright-status for LLM output, we as a community would *still*
need to decide whether we want to recognize that and incorporate it
There are many possible interpretations of the copyrightability of LLM
output, a selection:
- llm output is generally intellectual property of the user
- llm output is generally intellectual property of the organisation "hosting"
the llm
- llm output is generally public domain
- llm output is neither anyones IP nor in the public domain
- etc
And even if llm output is generally thought to be licensable, this
clearly cannot apply to any near-perfect copies of some part of its
training data that it may randomly emit, so incorporating llm output
into a GPL project would likely still be a legal risk
