In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges. OpenAI rival Stability AI, for example, is currently being sued by stock image maker Getty Images for using its copyrighted data to train its AI image generator.
Aaaaaand there it is. They don’t want to admit how much copyrighted materials they’ve been using.
I disagree with the “they’re violating copyright by training on our stuff” argument, but I’ve turned against generative AI because now automation is taking art from us, and we’re still slaving away at work, when automation was supposed to free up time for us to pursue art.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
I think it’s a basic requirement that the data upon which a large language model is trained be publicly disclosed. It’s the same as the requirement of writing the ingredients in packaged food. Or in knowing where your lawyer got their degree from. You want to know where what you’re using is coming from.
Read the whole thing. The reason OpenAI is opposing the law is not necessarily copyright infringement.
One provision in the current draft requires creators of foundation models to disclose details about their system’s design (including “computing power required, training time, and other relevant information related to the size and power of the model”)
This is the more likely problem.
Given their name is “OpenAI” and they were founded on the idea of being transparent with those exact things, I’m less impressed that that’s what they’re upset about. The keep saying they’re “protecting” us by not releasing us, which just isn’t true. They’re protecting their profits and valuation.
I’m with OpenAI here. Screw copyright and greedy publishers.
You wouldn’t be saying that if it was your content that was being ripped off
“Ripped off”? That isn’t how LLMs work.
if you read a copyrighted material without paying and then forgot most of it a month later with vague recollection of what you’ve read the fact is you still accessed and used the copyrighted material without paying.
Now let’s go a step further, you write something that is inspired by that copyrighted material and what you wrote become successful to some degree with eyes on it, but you refuse to admit that’s where you got the idea from because you only have a vague recollection. The fact is you got the idea from the copyrighted material.
FWIW that’s pretty much exactly how all creative works are created. Especially music.
