"John Levine" <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > To connect the dots, when you submit an I-D you have to grant all the > rights described in section 5 of BCP78, which says: > > The Contributor is further deemed to have agreed that he/she has > obtained the necessary permissions to enter into such an agreement > from any party that the Contributor reasonably and personally knows > may have rights in the Contribution, including, but not limited to, > the Contributor's sponsor or employer. > > In view of the many ongoing lawsuits against AI companies by people who claim > that the training material for LLMs and in some cases the LLM output have > violated their copyrights, I don't see any way that you could make those > assurances for LLM generated material. How about if you trained your own LLM on existing IETF RFCs only? And/or IETF mailing list discussions? And/or some free software available under permissive license? With a short acknowledgement a'la "This draft contains text written by a LLM trained on all IETF RFCs." (or similar) it seems that it could be argued to pass the above test. Even e-mails are contributions to the IETF, I think, and I suspect plenty of people already use LLMs to "improve" their e-mails, so I think we are already down in this rathole. /Simon
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