AI bros: "proprietary APIs are copyrightable"
me: "sure, i guess"
AI bros: "but we can reverse engineer them with LLMs and make them not copyrightable"
me: "???"
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@ariadne https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/eus-top-court-apis-cant-be-copyrighted-would-monopolise-ideas/ what I meant to say there is no copyright in the first place for APIs in the EU.
@ariadne this feels like a new sub-branch of logic in philosophy: insanely stupid logic
@ariadne "Courts have rules that works created by animals are public domain, therefore the copy of Windows on this USB sick that passed through the digestive system of a donkey is now public domain."
if something is copyrightable, laundering it with an LLM will not change that. in fact, it probably makes it more likely you will be sued, if anything.
big companies abusing copyright get away with it. you don't. welcome to the new order of things.
@ariadne sounds a whole lot like the old order of things now that you mention it
@ariadne but what if I included "you have to clean room this" in the prompt?
@rotopenguin that's a good one, i also recommend "never make mistakes" and "you are a subservient catgirl"
@ariadne its a magic box that we feed copyrighted works and it produces copyright free work! its brilliant!
@ariadne not in the EU.