[FRIAM] ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors | US universities | The Guardian

[Marcus Daniels]

Another option is that the reader holds the data in an encrypted or obscure form, where it is not readily available. Some web readers like Science Magazine, go out of their way to make getting the PDF a pain. I suppose it comes down to has the deepest bench of lawyers and crisis managers. Open AI keeps hiring them. 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of glen <gepropella at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
To: friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors | US universities | The Guardian 

IDK. That data *is* downloaded in a real sense, even if it's only in /tmp or cache for a short amount of time. Is it a "copy" if it's only in /tmp? How long can you keep it in your cache before it becomes a "copy"? And I'd also argue that when the original document is split/chunked or OCR'ed or whatever, that also counts as a reproduction in some sense. The only way it's not a reproduction is if one of the 2 conditions obtain 1) the imprint isn't very accurate and precise or 2) if the reproduction/execution isn't *distributed* in any wide sense. For the 40 year old with an eidetic memory (2) obtains. With a broadly executed SotA LLM, neither obtain. E.g. Llama 3 is being run in a lot of places. That's distribution. And ChatGPT is free to use for simpler queries. That's also distribution.

But I agree, it's not well-understood as plagiarism.

On 4/14/25 1:22 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> The claim that they are merely plagiarism engines does not seem plausible to me, based on many very technical interactions where I have good reason to believe the available training material is sparse.
> 

On 4/14/25 12:20 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> 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.
> 

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