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Meta used copyright to protect its AI model, but argues against the law for everyone else
Meta last year tried to use US copyright law to get an initial version of its Llama AI model removed from GitHub.
As it told the USCO late last year, Meta thinks it's "impossible for AI developers to license the rights" to all of the copyrighted information needed to build LLMs. It's notable that a single GitHub user successfully argued that, because Llama is essentially made up of copied parts and works, its specifications are not copyrightable. Several companies that submitted comments to the USCO, like Microsoft, OpenAI and even Apple, argue that outputs of their AI models and tools fall under copyright protection.
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