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“We can steal people’s copyrighted content but we can’t let you see it for yourself.”

Outside of privacy (leaking PII), the above is likely the main reason. Someone could have invested a lump of money to scrape as much as they can and then go to town in the courts.

The terms that prohibit it are under “2. Usage Requirements” that restrict reverse engineering the underlying model structure.

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Leaking original data would expose the company to direct copyright violation lawsuits. Changing T&S is simplest way to stave the legal risk exposure, buying time to implement technical remedies.

As ridiculous as it may seem, they're doing the right thing.

The right thing would've been to not train the model on data they do not own, or that they do not have permission to use.

Be careful saying that kind of stuff here. People get really mad when you tell them their new toys aren't ethical.

I made it my mission to get the lot of them mad. There are plenty of legitimate ai companies out there but YC seems fond of those unethical, which explains the infusion of ip stealing startups on here and their simps.

Hell yeah.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out. I can imagine Wiley, McGraw Hill, Pearson and other publishers[0] of educational content OpenAI used could sell the rights to their material to be used for training GPT, but the price would be high enough we would be paying $100/month instead of $20.

[0] Heck, they could even unite and found an LLM startup themselves training the models legally and making it available for users at various tiers.

Well I'm glad they did the wrong thing then

Are you also glad that microsoft - a behemoth - is profiting from your hard work by training their co-pilot using your code in github ?

Will you be glad when those systems are good enough to replace you, and they became so using your toil, for free ?

I've had no problem using Microsoft's toil for free by downloading free windows ISOs all my life, so if they want to pirate my Github code it's not bad enough to care about. Besides the bad practices the model might internalize as a result that is

Then speak for yourself, because I have been using Linux as a daily driver for almost my whole life.

I do not want corporate behemoths to profit from my work for free. Period.

Good for you, don't post your code on GitHub then, as they have an express terms of service about being able to use code submitted for business purposes, including AI model training.

I do not. Not any more. Which is not the GitHub I first joined.

And to sprinkle in a bit of ad hominem, I am aware that things regarding rules or ethics are viewed differently in your culture, and that is okay.

I am not sure what you mean by "my culture," what are you basing that off of? Why would you knowingly and willingly add an ad hominem? Very strange behavior in discourse.

GitHub has always had such clauses, even if they were not explicit about AI model training in particular. It is best to self host your own git instance if you are so worried.

I always find it amusing when criminals threaten legal action. Happens all the time. They steal your property then they cower behind their legal rights.

“don’t touch the unsecured, loaded firearm that is sitting on the counter, that might be stolen, maybe even got a body on it, don’t look too close, or you can be kicked out of the club for not following the rules”

so if this is what the right thing looks like…

> As ridiculous as it may seem, they're doing the right thing.

Making it against the rules to be able to prove their illegal behavior is not the right thing to do.

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