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Yeah. I'm gonna have an LLM rewrite Star Wars and then film it. Should be fine, right?

Making a movie that has basically the same plot as a previous movie with slight changes is a common occurrence.

The thing you have to be wary of with movies is trademark law. Your Star Wars copy can't use the word "Darth Vader", that's trademarked. It can't use Darth Vader's mask, Darth Vader's suit or Darth Vader's breathing either, all trademarked. And with trademark law the bar to pass is basically "would a reasonable but uninformed consumer be at risk of confusing your product for the trademark". LLMs can't launder that for you. You have to make actual changes, like Spaceballs did

Spaceballs is a parody, which is specifically an exception to the rules; it’s called “fair use”. If Spaceballs was not a comedy, it would not be permitted to exist.

Good ol' Varth Dader. A completely novel villain.

Star Wars itself is a rewrite of King Arthur stuff so go right the fuck ahead.

LGTM. copyright laws don't matter anymore.

The only good thing to come out of AI.

How is this good? Copyleft licenses are also being ignored.

Patents and copyright stifles innovation. Knowledge should be communal and free.

> Knowledge should be communal and free

I agree, which is why I license my work under copyleft licenses such as AGPLv3 so that anyone has to make their modifications public too.

I think LLMs (especially closed-source models) will make this worse.

Free and communal knowledge means you're easily replaceble by someone else.

I wonder what communal answer you have for someone who would say, "moi2388, your work will be now done by moi2389. Thanks and good bye."

The alternative is that you are not easily replaceable, which means that moi2389 is the one who doesn't get to do the work. Which is good for moi2388, perhaps, but what about moi2389? Either way someone is going to be left out in the cold.

moi2389 should research the market and create a new value, not replace someone else by providing the same value.

Same as what moi2388 would do in the opposite scenario. Six of one, half dozen of the other.

First off they can’t just fire me, I’m from a civilised country. Secondly, feel free to use whatever work I have done in the past, I still think you won’t be able to do my work in the future.

I have a lot of coworkers in civilized countries, they seem to get made redundant too. Sometimes they go on garden leave for a while first but the end result is the same.

> LGTM. copyright laws don't matter anymore.

hear hear, and good riddance too.

Only for the billion $ LLM companies that pay dear leader

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