ChatGPT in trouble: OpenAI sued for stealing everything anyone’s ever written on the Internet
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OpenAI's ChatGPT and Sam Altman are in massive trouble. OpenAI is getting sued in the US for illegally using content from the internet to train their LLM or large language models

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sam Altman are in massive trouble. OpenAI is getting sued in the US for illegally using content from the internet to train their LLM or large language models

  • jambalaya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    421·
    1 year ago

    Just because the data is “public” doesn’t mean it was intended to be used in this manner. Some of the data was even explicitly protected by gpl licensing or similar.

    • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      1 year ago

      but GPL licensing indicates that “If code was put in the public domain by its developer, it is in the public domain no matter where it has been” - so, likewise for data. if anyone has a case against OpenAI, it’d be whatever platforms they scraped - and ultimately those platforms would open their own, individual lawsuits.

      • Wander@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        Not a lawyer, but you can argue that if the language model is trained using gpl licensed data, then the language model has to be published under gpl as well.

          • Wander@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            If you release code under gpl, and I modify it, I’m required to release those modifications publicly under gpl as well.

            • inspxtr@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              so if content is under GPL and used for training data, how far is the process of training/fine-tuning considered “modification”? For example, if I scrape a bunch of blog posts and just try to use tools to analyze the language, does that considered “modification”? What is the minimum solution that OpenAI should do (or should have done) here, does it stop at making the code for processing the data public, or the entire code base?

              • Wander@kbin.social
                2·
                1 year ago

                I’m not sure. And I’m not sure there’s legal precedant for that either.
                That’s why I dont have a problem with any of these lawsuits, it gives us clarity on the legal aspects, whichever way it goes.