The investors will only get their 1000x if OpenAI can convince people its risk free to use. So they'll happily cover the legal battle to prove it or spent every last company penny trying
Not everything needs to be so cynical. What’s good for investors can be good for users as well.
This isn’t a ”copyright risk“, it’s a Silicon Valley corporation getting away with declaring copyright just… obsolete.
The technology is cool, I get it. But saying ”I don’t mind, they can use my content“ is on par with ”I don’t need privacy, I have nothing to hide“ in terms of statement quality.
But, I suppose I see it the other way as well. Just because you don't want large corporations to train their LLMs using your content doesn't mean that society has to settle on making it illegal. As an imperfect analogy: just because some people don't want to have their picture taken when they are out in public doesn't mean that taking pictures of people in public ought to be illegal.
So I think we have to get passed the "I don't like this, so it is evil" kind of thinking. As in the analogy to pictures of people in public, there is some expectation of privacy that we give up when we enter out into public. Perhaps there is some analogy there to content that we freely release into public. Perhaps we need stricter guidelines on LLM attribution. I don't have an answer, but I'm not going to allow this decision to be de facto made by the strong emotions of individuals who have already made up their minds.
So yeah, it may not be ideal, it's also of general public interest so much, that bringing up copyright seems... of poor taste.
(Curiously, I don't feel the same about image models. Perhaps that's because image models compete with current work of real artists. LLMs, at this point, don't meaningfully compete with anyone whose copyright their training possibly infringed.)
While this does not fully represent my views on what's a very complex issue, since you phrased it like this, I feel compelled to say: about damn time someone did it.