Ingezonden door Dirk Visser, Visser Schaap & Kreijger.
Memorisation is not a glitch
Foto: Monique Shaw
In para. 84-92 of his recent opinion in the Like Company case Advocate General Szpunar goes along with the narrative of the AI-industry that ‘memorisation’ is ‘a glitch’, ‘incidental’ and the result of ‘overfitting’. ‘Memorisation’ is the phenomenon that generative AI systems ‘store’ or ‘copy’ works, as they are able to ‘regurgitate’ large chunks of copyrighted works or almost identical copies of such works. According to the Advocate General this phenomenon is something ‘incidental’ that can be mitigated by ‘guardrails’ , and should therefore not be considered a copyright infringement for which the AI-system is liable, as long as the operator takes ‘appropriate measures that can be expected from a reasonably diligent operator in its situation’.