Not discrediting your work at all and I can’t tell you it applies here.
For copyright to exist there is some burden of proof. If you claim that an LLM verbatim output your code there can be an expensive lawsuit with expert witnesses that would be able to state that the code was bot original enough for copyright to exist in it and a statistical model outputting the code is evidence of that.
In that case you would end up with a very long lawsuit that is expensive to possibly come out with no resolution in the end and be in the hole for 5-6 figures for it.
The copyright system is broken because it only protects those with money so it is a bad legal foundation.
My personal point is there is only 2 licenses of code, closed source or permissive, because if it ever comes to enforcement I cannot possibly go to court and win a case because I will run out of money far earlier than whoever used the code.
Pretty much if someone with your knowledge would have written the same algorithm because it is the obviously correct solution then there is no copyright there because any clean room implementation would be the same code.
Even early LLMs could spit out Harry Potter verbatim. The next iteration had some kind of stoppage mechanism where they’d just stop generating after some tokens. I’m sure there are smarter approaches now. Anyway, if the issue was having enough money to fight the case, I think there’s enough money behind that brand to do it.
Some further reading on the tech details for those interested: “Extracting books from production language models”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
I think it's not quite "put in prompt, get entire book back", most of these involve to some degree starting with exerpts from the book and working passage by passage, because of nothing else the sampling will tend to make things diverge over time.
To get their strongest results, they had to jailbreak some models, which is important. They ran hundreds to 5000+ requests to the model, trying to get snippets to piece together. These are professional researchers, putting in tremendous effort, to extract pieces of text.
I suspect the chance of asking for a whole book, by an average or even power user, will spit out any recent work.
Early LLMs were similar. Newer ones have gotten tremendously hard to extract to keep claiming there’s easily or complete books you can dump.
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I pasted the first paragraph of Harry Potter into a GLM 4.6 copy, and it continued to write out the next 2 pages of Harry Potter. I cross checked with a paper copy and it was word for word the same text.
I wonder where else it works.
This is the intro text: "Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense."
For copyright to exist there is some burden of proof. If you claim that an LLM verbatim output your code there can be an expensive lawsuit with expert witnesses that would be able to state that the code was bot original enough for copyright to exist in it and a statistical model outputting the code is evidence of that.
In that case you would end up with a very long lawsuit that is expensive to possibly come out with no resolution in the end and be in the hole for 5-6 figures for it.
The copyright system is broken because it only protects those with money so it is a bad legal foundation.
My personal point is there is only 2 licenses of code, closed source or permissive, because if it ever comes to enforcement I cannot possibly go to court and win a case because I will run out of money far earlier than whoever used the code.
Pretty much if someone with your knowledge would have written the same algorithm because it is the obviously correct solution then there is no copyright there because any clean room implementation would be the same code.
Some further reading on the tech details for those interested: “Extracting books from production language models”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
I suspect the chance of asking for a whole book, by an average or even power user, will spit out any recent work.
Early LLMs were similar. Newer ones have gotten tremendously hard to extract to keep claiming there’s easily or complete books you can dump.
I wonder where else it works.
This is the intro text: "Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense."