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A comment on OpenAI's justification for why training data is fair use, not infringement [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:OpenAI's justification for why training data is fair use,... by pclmulqdq on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:21PM (#37784449)
> To take an example, zero folks that want to read Game of Thrones are asking ChatGPT to generate Game of Thrones for them instead of buying the book.

Why jump straight to one of the longest popular books in English? I'm sure plenty of people who would otherwise buy poetry anthologies are asking ChatGPT to write them a haiku. It's also entirely conceivable that ChatGPT can perfectly reproduce a poem in its training set - it can produce paragraph-sized quotes.

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Re:OpenAI's justification for why training data is fair use,... by rpdillon on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:30PM (#37785542)
It was a reference to the copyright suit brought by the author.

https://apnews.com/article/openai-lawsuit-authors-grisham-ge...

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