But the hypothetical world in which your laptop falls off a shelf and randomly writes Windows 95 is a fake one.
LLMs aren't random number generators running in isolation.
They're trained on copyrighted material. If they regurgitate copyrighted material, we know where it came from. It came from the training material.
Valve is rightly concerned that non-lawyers have no clue what they're getting themselves into when using the current generation of AI models. The inability to determine whether an output is a substantial copy of an input is not a free pass to do whatever you want with it, it's a copyright infringement roulette.
There are way too many people in this industry who believe that building a technology which makes compliance impossible is the same thing as making compliance unnecessary.
LLMs aren't random number generators running in isolation.
They're trained on copyrighted material. If they regurgitate copyrighted material, we know where it came from. It came from the training material.
Valve is rightly concerned that non-lawyers have no clue what they're getting themselves into when using the current generation of AI models. The inability to determine whether an output is a substantial copy of an input is not a free pass to do whatever you want with it, it's a copyright infringement roulette.
There are way too many people in this industry who believe that building a technology which makes compliance impossible is the same thing as making compliance unnecessary.