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Llms are not humans and shouldn’t be anthropomorphized as a strategy to get around copyright infringement.


Absolutely correct, LLMs are code. If that code ingests data without precisely replicating it, that's fair use and the end of the discussion.


And if they do get anthropomorphized... then the people in charge of that company need to be charged with the heinous crime of enslaving children.


I've been uhh.. suffering(?) a different perspective. A company may hire a human to talk for it or its owner may talk for it.. the server rack and the software are things it can own. I don't think others are nesasarly any longer talking for it.

It is an absurd leap we've made but companies are also legal persons.

The companies are still of human design full of human behaviour and human characteristics while the LLMs actively try to imitate humans.

The dictionary saying: anthropomorphized: attribute human characteristics or behaviour to (a god, animal, or object).

If it passes the Turing test surely anthropomorphizing is fair game?

(I have no stake in this)


That's an opinion that will be tested in a court soon enough.




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