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A more convincing exhibit would have been convincing ChatGPT to output some of the text verbatim, instead of a summary. Here's what I got when I tried:

    I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, I don't have access to specific external databases, books, or the ability to pull in new information after that date. This means that I can't provide a verbatim quote from Sarah Silverman's book "The Bedwetter" or any other specific text. However, I can generate text based on my training and knowledge up to that point, so feel free to ask me questions about Sarah Silverman or topics related to her work!

Maybe you missed this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36400053 it seems OpenAI is aware of their software outputs copyrighted stuff so they attempted some quick fix filter. So the fact it will not ouput the book for us when we ask does not prove that the AI does not have memorized big chunks of it, it might just be some "safety" filter involved and you need soem simple trick to get around it.

I tried making chatgpt output first paragpraph of lord of the rings before, it goes silent after first few words. Looks like the devs are filtering it out

GPT is a lossy jpeg of the whole Internet. It’s not possible to extract verbatim text from it, due to how neural networks work.

How do you think they would fit exabytes of text data into a gigabyte-sized neural network? That’s right, it’s lossy.

>It’s not possible to extract verbatim text from it

I didn't ask for the whole book, I asked for the first paragraph. It absolutely is possible to get verbatim text from chatgpt.

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