HACKER Q&A
📣 matt3210

If my LLM generates a script similar to a TV show, can I use it?


If my LLM generates a script similar to a TV show, can I use it?


  👤 chx Accepted Answer ✓
Use it for what? Entertaining a court of competent jurisdiction with your complete ignorance of copyright law? For sure. As a script for a TV show? Well, of course you can, but expect to pay a pretty penny for violating the copyright of the original.

Copyright does not particularly care whether you produce infringing materials with a fountain pen or a plausible sentence generator software.


👤 matt3210
If the LLM generation cannot be copyrighted, then it cannot violate a copyright...right?

👤 joegibbs
"Similar to" in what way? If you mean that it's an episode of a new show with new characters that uses similar plot points to another show then you're all good. But if it's straight up using the same characters, fictional setting etc then you might be in trouble.