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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ASchmidt" data-source="post: 9617206" data-attributes="member: 6729334">We've all seen the phrase "free for personal use", generally on software but I've also seen it on licenses for things like clipart. That's because otherwise, to use someone's work (specifically anything that's covered under registered IP) requires a license. A lot of licenses describe the ways the work may be used. But now and then technology comes along that wasn't even an idea to be considered when the licenses were drawn up. A good example is when video recorders came along and licences and contracts based on the idea that their work would only ever be broadcast or projected onto a screen weren't dealing well with the new distribution methods and making sure that creators were reimbursed for their work. Same thing happened again with streaming. There weren't (there are now) licenses for work that specified whether it was free for use for training AIs or if that was specifically prohibited.I'm going to quote from a book that I've got a physical copy of but pretty much every book out there has something like this in the first couple pages. The copyright statement."Copyright (c) 1995 by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book (including interior design, cover design, and illustrations) may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means, (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher. For authorization to photocopy items for internal corporate use, personal use, or for educational and/or classroom use, please contact...."The bolding and italics are mine. But does any part of that sound like it gives the ok to someone to use that work to train an LLM? And that was from 30 years ago.</blockquote>

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