• Sinnerman@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    OpenAI scraped the Internet, legally and illegally to power ChatGPT.

    I’m not a huge OpenAI fan, but it’s not yet been determined that they acted illegally. I believe the matter is still being pursued in court.

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      I think people are too focused on the scraping, which is clearly not illegal, but is what the roch people who own the websites are hollering about because they wanted to make money off of selling the posted content they did not actually own

      Open AI’s implementation of image creation in the style of a particular artist using copyrighted works is going to be the big outcome.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not illegal for a person to learn things online. That’s one of the original purposes of the “world wide web” when it was opened to universities.

        It is illegal to copy someone’s brand and use it to make money. These chat bots are literally charging people to take input like “write a story in this author’s style” and outputting a story that is a poor mimicry. The main problem is they are charging money based on someone else’s trademark. Not that they write a similar story.