TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.
Sorry, I just got around to this message. That is the idea of the provenance – clearly, the canonical work is copyright. It is the version that has been stripped of its provenance via the LLM that no longer retains its copyright (because as I pointed out, LLM outputs cannot be copyright).
That doesn’t make it “no longer copy-written” though. The original copyright holder retains their copyright on it. I can’t see any court ruling otherwise.
The output of the LLM can be incorporated into copyrighted material and is copyright free. I never claimed that the copyright on the original work was lost.
I highly doubt the law is settled on this topic and you’re assuming it is. I can’t see the courts accepting that your duplicate version of my work created through “magic” is not going to be a violation of my copyright. Especially if my work was included as input to the “magic box” that created the output.