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2 authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT. Now they're suing, and a 'wave' of similar court cases may follow. (www.businessinsider.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.