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Re:Creators of AI-generated George Carlin special sued by la... by dorkwood on Saturday January 27, 2024 @10:21PM (#39162238)
> GPT-3 was even openly trained on books from a literal pirate torrent tracker

What's stopping a human from reading all of the same books?

Re:Creators of AI-generated George Carlin special sued by la... by rectang on Saturday January 27, 2024 @10:53PM (#39162399)
As the previous commenter indicated, scale — it’s not physically possible for a human to read that many books.

Even the most dedicated readers will only read a few thousand books in their lifetime. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/93594/heres-how-many-boo...

ChatGPT is trained on orders of magnitude more books than a human can consume.

https://torrentfreak.com/authors-accuse-openai-of-using-pira...

> OpenAI hasn’t disclosed the datasets that ChatGPT is trained on, but in an older paper two databases are referenced; “Books1” and “Books2”. The first one contains roughly 63,000 titles and the latter around 294,000 titles