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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/a... Scribd has lots

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/a... Scribd has lots of pdfs of books that are copyrighted. The Washington Post article mentions there are several other places it downloaded and scraped pdfs of copyrighted textbooks, etc

fasterik 3y ago
That's interesting to know, but that doesn't by itself imply that it's illegal. For example, Google Books, which has massive amounts of scanned PDFs of copyrighted works, is considered fair use under US copyright law.
- still_grokking 3y ago
  As long as you don't try to scrape all the book's content… It's only fair use for search purposes.
  - fasterik 3y ago
    It's fair use if the work is "transformative". GPT-4 isn't publishing the content of the books, it's publishing a model derived from the entire corpus. I'm not a lawyer, but I think there's an argument that it is transformative.
    - still_grokking 3y ago
      Imho as transformative as encoding a DVD as DivX… It's correct that OpenAI isn't publishing any of the "stolen" content directly. But they "stole" it to make their service possible in the first place. Not distributing it themself doesn't make much difference than.
- cyanydeez 3y ago
  There's no good faith world where OPENAI trained only on legally available works The only valid arguments is whether their model or it's output is itself protected legally.