Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works
That’s a bold assumption that openai even knows. Part of the magic of how their large language model works is non-inversion. You cannot take an output and derive backwards to a precise input ad the inputs are no longer present in the tokenization chain that’s formed during the learning process. This is a byproduct of all currently language learning models AFAIK. Building in the ability to enable reversible computation would add infathomable complexity in these types of systems.
Not necessarily: Facebook has used a public-private-partnership with a German university to let them train the model on publicly available data, no matter the copyright status. The university is allowed to do this, since science enjoys a lot of defined rights, which rank higher than commercial copyright in Germany specifically (but I can imagine in other places as well). Facebook just received the model. This is obviously a ploy for plausible deniability and morally wrong, but it hasn’t been challenged in court yet and is believed to hold up currently. I can imagine OpenAI to be smart enough to have one or more layers of buffering between themselves and the dataset as well.
They could subpoena people who actually know how openai did it.
That’s a bold assumption that openai even knows. Part of the magic of how their large language model works is non-inversion. You cannot take an output and derive backwards to a precise input ad the inputs are no longer present in the tokenization chain that’s formed during the learning process. This is a byproduct of all currently language learning models AFAIK. Building in the ability to enable reversible computation would add infathomable complexity in these types of systems.
They know the training data sources.
Not necessarily: Facebook has used a public-private-partnership with a German university to let them train the model on publicly available data, no matter the copyright status. The university is allowed to do this, since science enjoys a lot of defined rights, which rank higher than commercial copyright in Germany specifically (but I can imagine in other places as well). Facebook just received the model. This is obviously a ploy for plausible deniability and morally wrong, but it hasn’t been challenged in court yet and is believed to hold up currently. I can imagine OpenAI to be smart enough to have one or more layers of buffering between themselves and the dataset as well.