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Re:NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT in... by sagarm on Thursday December 28, 2023 @05:35PM (#38799605)
IMO it's pretty hard to training an LLM isn't a transformative use. It's clearly not just copying, or even excerpting. Even if it was just compression (and it's not), they're only providing model output not distributing the "compressed" NYT articles.

Yielding verbatim snippets of copyrighted content is a problem for OpenAI though.

Re:NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT in... by cmiles74 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @06:43PM (#38800143)
Perhaps we will see the courts revisit this idea of "transformative" works and formulate something more useful. I'm my opinion, you can't build an LLM unless you have a large amount of data with which to train it. Given the huge amount of money companies like OpenAI hope to generate, it seems unreasonable that content creators would not be rewarded.