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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9464400" data-attributes="member: 725">[USER=75787]@Gorgon Zee[/USER] How happy are you with the results?I think it's interesting what you've done, but I think making/configuring this is way beyond the skill set of the average user and quite time intensive. Imagine doing this with the whole library of all Forgotten Realms source books and adventures over the past ~35 years...I've been looking at MS Copilot for Office 365, which according to the MS marketing machine allows you to include documents (for reference) that you have access to (in your tenant) to your LLM responses. How well that works I don't know yet (as MS often sells you a product that isn't doing what it should), but that sounds like a nice user friendly shell that does something similar to what you did here. Any experience with that product or something similar that makes this more user friendly, less time intensive?If that's the case, we make a copy of the copyrighted information every time we download it. When we move it from one disk to another, we first make a copy and then 'forget' where the previous copy was located (it's still there, just not yet overwritten). We apparently have the right to make copies, it's kind of necessary with how computers work...Also keep in mind that US copyright isn't globally enforced. In the Netherlands I have a legal right to make copies for personal use for example. International copyright laws have local implementations, that can be very different. There have also been quite a few changes and interpretations of those copyright laws over the past 40 years (at least here in the Netherlands).How is making a copy on disk any different then making a transformed copy on another disk (LLM)? With a pdf you can make embeded indexes, which essentially takes the content of the pdf, transforms it so it's better searchable and embeds it in the document again (changes the file). What about catalogs, which is the same feature, but for multiple pdf documents. Something I already did ~20 years ago with all the OCRed official 2E D&D pdfs. Which was a great tool for preparing adventures (search for <name> and it would give all the results from all the included books with direct links to the mentions).What about a blind person that uses a text to speech option? How do you think those things work? A copy of the work is loaded and then transformed, there's been some AI usage in there for years... Again, depending on the country you're in, that's a right and duty to make 'works' accessible by the disabled.There are many laws/rules that are constantly being broken and not being stopped, fined or punished. ChatGPT has been publicly available for almost two years now. Big companies like MS and Apple now use it/sell it. LLMs are a $6+ billion industry in 2024... And as far as I know (haven't been actively following this for a couple of months now) still no legal consequences. So you can yell "This is illegal!" until you're green and yellow, when no one is enforcing that, it's just shouting into the wind.</blockquote>

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