cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1246165

Two authors sued OpenAI, accusing the company of violating copyright law. They say OpenAI used their work to train ChatGPT without their consent.

  • _Rho_
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    2 years ago

    How can they prove this though? I don’t think they’d have any way to. Unless OpenAI straight up admits it. But like the article mentions, the data could still have been obtained legally.

    • @phoneymouse
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      62 years ago

      Ask ChatGPT to summarize Sarah Silverman’s book. Ask it to give you a few quotes from it.

      How else would it be able to do that unless it had been trained using the book as an input.

      • @RGB3x3
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        51 year ago

        It could have parsed it from some webpage it found, like a book review. It doesn’t necessarily have to be from the book itself.

        There are other ways of getting that info than actually injecting the original material.

      • _Rho_
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        22 years ago

        Hmm. That’s a fair point. Lol.

        I suppose it’s possible that it was trained on articles and such that quote/summarize the book. But what you’re saying makes sense.

        • @Moskus
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          32 years ago

          ChatGPT could have read 1000 other summaries of the book, it doesn’t have to read the actual book to make a summary. It can just rewrite don’t out the old ones.