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.

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • _Rho_@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Moskus@lemmy.world
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        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.