..which makes no sense. It is either an argument of ignorance or of purposeful deceit. There is no coherent data corpus (compressed or not) in ChatGPT. What is stored are weights that create a string of tokens that can recreate excerpts data that it was trained on, with some imperfect level of accuracy.
Which I agree is problematic, and OpenAI doesn't have the right to disseminate that.
But that doesn't mean OpenAI doesn't have the right to train on it.
Content creators are doing a purposeful slight of hand to confabulate "outputting copyrighted data" with "training on copyrighted data".
It's illegal for me to read an NYT article and recite it from memory onto my blog.
It's not illegal for me to read an NYT article and write my own summary of the article's contents on my blog. This has been true forever and has forever been a staple in new content creation.
Which I agree is problematic, and OpenAI doesn't have the right to disseminate that.
But that doesn't mean OpenAI doesn't have the right to train on it.
Content creators are doing a purposeful slight of hand to confabulate "outputting copyrighted data" with "training on copyrighted data".
It's illegal for me to read an NYT article and recite it from memory onto my blog.
It's not illegal for me to read an NYT article and write my own summary of the article's contents on my blog. This has been true forever and has forever been a staple in new content creation.