The Attribution Story

The year is 1999. Ask kids who invented the personal computer? "Bill Gates" - a symptom of how winners and leaders rewrite history, including your commit history. Did Sam Altman invent ChatGPT? Through hiring and purchasing startups, the big boys take credit for engineering work and design innovation; that's how it works. Around 2023 I raised an ear as people started discussing - no, litigating - attribution of "machine generated works"... Work is transformative with nothing being created from nothing; attribution not black or white. The outcome has been... confusing; until diffusers, procedural art was not a commons. Image created by me... (custom generator; ~2020)? Described as the biggest heist in human history (Toby Walsh said this... was he first... unsure), the LLM would be nothing without human knowledge to churn on. You definitely can arrange LLM producing original works autonomously, however this does not change how LLM approximates human knowledge in sum, whereas the algorith