Malus, which is a piece of “satire” but also fully functional, performs a “clean room” clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the “clean room” argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software – and somehow the output of the LLMs isn’t considered a derivative work.

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      Omg Imagine if half of the case is just an ML course to teach the jury what training data is.

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          And you teach all of them the amount of data facebook takes from them. ALL of it.

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        That sounds painful. Absolutely no shade to the lovely older person I overheard today say: “so how do you get the little folks on the screen to know what buttons I pressed?”

        But I’m guessing it could be similar to music copywrite law where jurors don’t have to understand audio engineering to know two samples sound the same.

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          Nope the class will be dropped down to teach all the basics and then up to vector databases and word embeddings to understand the case.

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            I would expect the jury to be nothing less than world-class experts on statistics, linear algebra, and calculus once the case is decided.