Falsities of LLM Negationists

There is one claim about LLMs that irritates me more than all the discussions about prompting, AGI, and stochastic parrots combined: "We don’t know if it is yours". Sometimes the wording changes: "There might be a copyright owner out there". "It may be public domain". "We don’t know whether it can be copyrighted". A person spends a month building something. They generate hundreds of outputs, most…