Fair use isn’t a loophole, it is copyright law.

Have you read this article by Cory Doctorow yet?

Drake is not a rapper.

The way you describe how these models work is wrong. This video does a good job of explaining how they work.

But you can still be creative if you keep every outcome, it would be very hard to prove creativity if you discard everything. The one could argue you’re creative the moment you select something.

How can it be creative to destroy outcomes? Destruction is the opposite of creativity.

I don’t think all creativity requires intentionality. Some forms of creativity are the accumulation of unintentional outcomes, like when someone sets out to copy a thing, but due to mistakes or other factors outside their control end up with something unique to what they were going for.

I was asking about creativity, not art. It’s possible for something to be creative and not be art.

How is intentionality integral to creativity?

How that preclude these models from being creative? Randomness within rules can be pretty creative. All life on earth is the result of selection on random mutations. Its output is way more structured and coherent than random noise. That’s not a good comparison at all.

Either way, generative tools are a great way for the people using to create with, no model has to be creative on its own.

What does that mean, and isn’t that still something people can employ for their creative process?

You should check out this article by Kit Walsh, a senior staff attorney at the EFF, and this one by Katherine Klosek, the director of information policy and federal relations at the Association of Research Libraries.

As the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the mark of a blindness, an imbecility, but had also the air of a vengeance. I do not believe, or at least I do not wish to believe, in the absolute success of such a brutish conspiracy, in which, as in all others, one finds both fools and knaves; but I am convinced that the ill-applied developments of photography, like all other purely material developments of progress, have contrib­uted much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce. It is nonetheless obvious that this industry, by invading the territories of art, has become art’s most mor­tal enemy, and that the confusion of their several func­tions prevents any of them from being properly fulfilled.

― Charles Baudelaire, On Photography, from The Salon of 1859

It’s impossible to LARP as an artist. Everyone who creates is an artist, whether you like it or not.

This post isn’t true, LLMs do have an understanding of things.

SELF-RAG: Improving the Factual Accuracy of Large Language Models through Self-Reflection

Chess-GPT’s Internal World Model

POKÉLLMON: A Human-Parity Agent for Pokémon Battle with Large Language Models

Language Models Represent Space and Time

Reminder that this is made by Ben Zhao, the University of Chicago professor who stole open source code for his last data poisoning scheme.