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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by pessimizer on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:30PM (#36659119)
> it is just as likely it saw any number of things about it

Is this based on inside information, or just the law of averages? Doesn't the fact that they openly admitted to having been trained on pirated books affect your priors?

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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by refulgentis on Sunday July 09, 2023 @11:18PM (#36661664)
They didn't, more conjecture
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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by Jolter on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:42AM (#36662535)
It seems to me that they are indeed admitting to using the pile/books3 dataset, which seems to contain Silverman’s book, at least.

See post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36659041 for a summary.

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