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Thursday, August 31, 2023

OpenAI disputes authors’ claims that every ChatGPT response is a derivative work

Ars Technica: This week, OpenAI finally responded to a pair of nearly identical class-action lawsuits from book authors—including Sarah Silverman, Paul Tremblay, Mona Awad, Chris Golden, and Richard Kadrey—who earlier this summer alleged that ChatGPT was illegally trained on pirated copies of their books.

1 comment:

Nick Wylie said...

This is a very interesting conversation that seems obvious but I have never really considered. AI platforms like ChatGPT are useful because they can scour the internet to help the user answer a desired question or prompt. This can include places where illegal pirated copies of all forms of media are kept. This is an extremely important lawsuit because it may not only regulate what content is accessible by AI, but may start a movement towards more internet regulation as a whole. It will be very interesting to see how these lawsuits play out, because it very well might play a role in the future of internet content moving forward.