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In that case, shouldn't the training data be open source? Seems like somebody got an unfair advantage here.

In that case, the training data is the product.

They intentionally built an unfair advantage so that they could sell it.

Oddly enough that's what they're aiming to claim a monopoly over.

Here's[1] a patent they have filed towards the system. Claims 1-18 and 20 are focused on the training of the neural network. Looks like Claims 1-18 are going to be granted soon largely in that form also from looking at PAIR[2].

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160292856A1/en?q=AI,ar... [2] https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair

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