US brief calls LLM training fair use, sparking debate on LLM anthropomorphism
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-09-04
- Lee Hepner flags the US government's morning brief arguing that training LLMs on copyrighted material is fair use, mocking its analogies as skating on thin ice.
- BigMeanInternet pushes back on the framing: LLMs have no selves — the greatest influence on their writing is a statistical question, and there is nothing else but influence.
- The exchange ties copyright litigation to the deeper question of whether models can be treated as authors at all.
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