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When the applause for ChatGPT dies down, people are going to be angry about it’s data sources being hidden and possibly violating copyright.

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The amount of value that ChatGPT has given me is enough where I don't care at all if my own tutorials and documentation has been scraped to expand the model's knowledge. I'm not profiting off my work either way, and if helps people understand things it's honestly a plus. Although I definitely understand the frustration from people having their copyrighted material used to compete against them, the pushback from artists against image generation from copyrighted data sets is 100% warranted.

That's fine, but it's unacceptable for ChatGPT to ingest copyrighted information.

I could imagine a gargantuan lawsuit in the future.

You might not care about yours, but I can name a lot of people who do care because that's their entire career and what feeds their family and pays for insurance.

Tough shit if someone can't afford their insulin anymore, right?

Oil companies don't much care that their products and practices have exacerbated climate change - they hid relevant data from us generated by their scientists - yet we are finding ways to hold them liable, and we generally don't think well of people who hold them up as paragons.

Copyright directly enables a huge portion of most developed nations' GDP. AI will have an effect on copyright and businesses that depend upon it. And even if you care nothing for the ethics around copyright, it's worth respecting the political might and bankrolls those companies will wield.

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