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Re:NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT in... by octacat on Thursday December 28, 2023 @07:44AM (#38792897)
So, if someone decompiles a program and compiles it again, it would look different. "It is not copying", we just did some data laundering.

Feeding someone else data into your system is usually a violation of copyright. Even if you have a very "smart" system, trying to transform and obfuscate the original data.

Re:NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT in... by Matticus_Rex on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:09AM (#38794096)
> Feeding someone else data into your system is usually a violation of copyright

In some circumstances, yes, but often it's not, especially if you're not continuing to store and use it (which OpenAI isn't).

Re:NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT in... by _rm on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:10AM (#38794101)
I'm regularly feeding other people's data into my "system" (brain) in order to produce my outputs.

So I'm a living breathing copyright violator. As a person I should be banned.

Fortunately, copyright is a bullshit fictitious right with no basis in natural law. So I don't lose much sleep over it.

Re:NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT in... by octacat on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:55AM (#38794674)
Computers are deterministic. Giving the same inputs training would produce the same model. The comparison with brain is incorrect. You could add noise on input data during the training - it would more of less reproduce the real learning. Still, it could produce less useable models as a result.

The court could ask to show the training dataset.