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Re:NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT in... by fennecbutt on Thursday December 28, 2023 @09:04PM (#38801050)
>content whose substance was created by someone else

And how did the training data contribute to the content in any meaningful way? Inspiration isn't substance.

You think all fantasy writers gotta pay Tolkien estate bc so much of fantasy draws from his tropes? Lmao no.

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Re:NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT in... by caconym_ on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:57PM (#38801627)
> And how did the training data contribute to the content in any meaningful way? Inspiration isn't substance.

If training data is so unimportant, why not simply not use it and avoid the controversy? At the very least that would certainly fix the issue where the model demonstrates how "inspired" it is by NYT articles by reproducing them verbatim.

:)

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