Random thought: my blog is licensed under a Creative Commons license [1] that allows you to use and transform my content as long as you give attribution and distribute your contributions under the same terms.<p>I found the OpenAI bot scraping my blog recently. Assuming they used that data, when will they attribute me?<p>[1] <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/</a>
All these lawsuits will die. Why?<p>Because people train on corpuses of data all the time, without a license or any attribution.<p>Every piece of text a writer reads is training that writer. Every image an artist sees helps to train that artist. Every sound a musician hears is training that musician.<p>That doesn't mean they can't exclude their works from training via a license going foreward. But that becomes an enforcement problem.
Do cliff notes of books and plays infringe/need a license? If so, that seems like they’d have a possible case. Maybe. If not, well… maybe openAI infringed by not buying their original copy, but not sure that feeding it into a bunch of math is going to be copyright infringement.
The fair use argument is quite strong<p>If you dissect the plaintiffs claim they are arbitrarily conflating training and regurgitating<p>Training is using for criticism and comparison purposes, hence fair use<p>And there is no lawsuit against what it regurgitates and the purpose of its output, whether someone asks it to give a list for comparison purposes, or specifically asks it for a story that has a plagiarized result
I'm miffed. I tried a couple characters from my books, and zilch:<p>=====
who is dan markunas<p>ChatGPT
I'm sorry, but I don't have any information on a person named Dan Markunas in my database ....<p>who is janet saunders
ChatGPT
I'm sorry, but I don't have any specific information about a person named Janet Saunders in my database,<p>===========
this is a great lawsuit! if you read the complaint, they catch OpenAI dead-to-rights .. asking about plot details with names from the books, asking to write a paragraph in the style of the author in that book, and a diversity of authors that shows social awareness.. great support for this from California