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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>There’s only a reproduction violation by the user if they make a copy. If they are reading it in a browser interface that just blasts pixels at them, then the fast-reading gal in North Korea has not broken a (western) law. It is vanishingly unlikely Meta did it that way, but in principle it could be done. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of glen <gepropella@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Monday, April 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM<br><b>To: </b>friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors | US universities | The Guardian<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Obviously, there's such a thing as "fair use". My own answers would be, under current US Law, many of the papers on sci-hub are illegally distributed. And if it can be established that "she" knew that her access to them was illegal, then "she" should be prosecuted in the same way a human would be.<br><br>And similar to holding parents responsible for gun violence if they didn't lock up the gun, if "she" can't be held liable, then the data center(s) upon which "she" executes should be held liable. And if the data centers can't be held liable, then the owners/operators of the model and data centers should be.<br><br>Of course, lots of humans access sci-hub and aren't prosecuted. So the rhetoric shifts to the produce (as in the Meta case). As long as "her" product was not near-verbatim and as long as the derived works abide by citation/credit rules, then nothing untoward happened.<br><br>On the other hand, no human has the productivity and reach "she" does. And that productivity and reach are not a function of "her" so much as a function of "her" owners (as Steve points out). In the same way non-autonomous things like cars or fire-and-forget missiles have a kind of transitivity for their liability (no, the missiles aren't responsible for dead Palestinians and Ukrainians, Israel and Russia are responsible), it translates through to their owners/operators.<br><br>I don't see how any of that is all that confusing, in principle. In practice, that's why we have lawyers and why we pay them so much. To think of an LLM as analogous to a 40 year old woman is just false for the foreseeable future. It reminds me of the "von Neumann machines" from scifi ... or maybe Elno's progression of lies around FSD.<br><br>But the LLMs do show that the laws are obsolete and need to be rewritten, which won't happen with an octogenarian legislature.<br><br><br>On 4/14/25 11:31 AM, steve smith wrote:<br>> <br>> On 4/14/25 12:23 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br>>><br>>> Let’s say that in some obscure corner of the world there’s a freakishly intelligent child that reads 100 papers from sci-hub and arxiv every day and keeps doing this until she’s 40. Her comprehension is high and her reasoning unmatched. She sees how to apply these models within the fields where they were proposed and in others and can synthesize high-quality engineering solutions at will.<br>>><br>>> Has she stolen something? sci-hub did the distribution, so it is not technically her copyright violation.<br>>><br>> Let's say that she was not a free agent but birthed and raised by an autocratic leader (e.g. PRK, CCCP, Russia, ???)...<br>> <br>> Does that change anything? I can't say. Splitting hairs can be such hard work! 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