Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions
On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 03:24:05PM +0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 at 15:09, Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Regarding model output, a judge in New York wrote last year:
> >
> > Turning to the merits, the Court must determine whether the Consolidated
> > Class
> > Action Complaint adequately pleads an output-based infringement claim.
> > It does.[2]
> >
> > This is not a decision on the merits, but it is an ongoing lawsuit where
> > the judge did compare training data and model output in the decision not
> > to dismiss.
>
>
> Notable in the same opinion that the "fair use" was not yet cosnidered at
> all, purely on procedural grounds - "A court cannot engage in the fair use
> inquiry until it
> has been presented with facts relevant to evaluating the fair use factors."
In [1] I gave an example of a different judge calling this
"the potentially winning argument", but "that these
plaintiffs made the wrong argument".
In [2] the plaintiffs are making the right argument, and it's not
obvious on what basis the judge would dismiss without a trial.
> The outputs presented in the case do not really differ much in
> principle from Wikipedia or Goodreads summaries of the same books.
That's not true:
Similarly, a more discerning observer could properly conclude that
outlines for potential sequels to plaintiffs’ works that were
generated in response to prompts to ChatGPT are substantially
similar to plaintiffs’ original works.[2]
> Any
> decision ruling that as derivative work requiring licenses would also kill
> Wikipedia, Goodreads, IMDB and hundreds of other places on the Internet
> that describe and books, tv shows or movies in any kind of detai.
>...
That's not true.
The jury could for example decide that summaries do not have a negative
impact on the market of the copyrighted work, but that generated sequels
have a negative impact on the market for the upcoming "The Winds of Winter".
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Adrian
> > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/07/msg00157.html
> > [2] https://assets.law360news.com/2404000/2404371/https-ecf-nysd-uscourts-gov-doc1-127138452540.pdf
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