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What about the high quality training data that OpenAI has encoded into ChatGPT? Do these other models come close to that?

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Why couldn't you just use OpenAI's API to feed prompts and then take the outputs and use them to train your own model to exfiltrate the best features of GPT?

Because it would be against their TOS, and things could look ugly, legally.

It's still an open question if any of these models, trained on copyright work, will themselves be eligible for copyright protection.

Is this a bit? If it's illegal to train on copyrighted material, then OAI has broken the law ten times over by training GPT3. There's absolutely zero reason for them to sue, they'll just ban the responsible people.

I think their TOS forbids using the API for this. I don't think it covers the use of the web interface.

However:

"You may not [...] except as permitted through the API, use any automated or programmatic method to extract data or output from the Services, including scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction;"

Can’t be automated, so manual extraction is allowed.

Ironic

How many TOS agreements do you suppose they violated while training their models?

Give it a try if you feel like it is a good thing to do. I'm sure some nation states are doing it.

P.S. this comment does not reflect my personal values. But I would rather someone with values try it almost like a white hat pen test.

That's how Alpaca is made

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