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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For the record, LLMs cannot hold a copyright, and material produced by them has no copyright.

using them to generate summaries or introductions isn’t plagiarism, though the lack of copyright is probably significant to the organization.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am not seeing where copyrights came into this discussion, but fwiw the bills I mentioned were passed many years ago, before any LLMs existed.

I don't think congressional bills even need to be copyrighted.

Academic papers do not either, although plagiarism still exists, yet has nothing to do with copyrights.

Summaries are fine for like a Google search, but for a scientific paper using other words without proper attribution is enough to lose not only a job but to have one's degree revoked, even decades after being awarded.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

simply using a LLM to condense an introduction from whatever data you feed it isn’t plagiarism. Now, using unsourced material definitely is.

As for academic or whatever else- all works are copy protected automatically when they’re created. This even includes that horrible crayon drawing you made in kindergarten of your family and dog.

Material generated by LLMs are an exception and automatically in the public domain.