Ask HN: Legality of a ML model that rewords news articles

1 points by Sateeshm 3y ago ↗ HN

If I train a ML model not unlike GPT3 that scrapes all the major news websites across the world and creates new completely reworded articles, to post to a website and charge people via ads/subs, would that be legal?

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computerliker 3y ago ↗

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

Sateeshm 3y ago ↗

Isn't what i proposed is basically what gpt-3/stable diffusion are doing?

computerliker 3y ago ↗

Yes :)

LinuxBender 3y ago ↗

I am not a lawyer but that is probably somewhere between the realm of derivative works [1] which the original author would have to approve and plagiarism as computerliker mentioned. I am only guessing but I would expect the court to determine how much of the original underlying work was used to create the new piece.

Might ML/GPT become a boon for copyright lawyers?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work