The use of large language models (“LLMs”) has exploded in recent years, including in the generation of source code. But even as their usage gains popularit...
What creative transformation has that company done? It seems to me rather that the LLM is an entirely mechanical process with no creativity.
No more creative than what my ISP does when it conveys data from one machine to another.
We don’t allow the ISP to claim copyright in the data that it mechanically transforms. I don’t see why the company running an LLM would have any stronger claim of copyright in the output.
What creative transformation has that company done? It seems to me rather that the LLM is an entirely mechanical process with no creativity.
No more creative than what my ISP does when it conveys data from one machine to another.
We don’t allow the ISP to claim copyright in the data that it mechanically transforms. I don’t see why the company running an LLM would have any stronger claim of copyright in the output.