I don’t get the ‘OpenAI is a company not a person’ argument. Would those arguments go away if the GPT model had been published by a single individual, Satoshi s

I don’t get the ‘OpenAI is a company not a person’ argument. Would those arguments go away if the GPT model had been published by a single individual, Satoshi style? The question of whether it’s okay for OpenAI to train an LLM on copyrighted material and sell the results would also go to whether you or I can train an LLM (or finetune one, or do any other kind of ML training), on copyrighted material and make commercial use of the result. It seems to me OpenAI have done the equivalent of distilling a bunch of knowledge down into a book. And they’ve given that book a really good index. They’re essentially an encyclopedia vendor. Just an exceedingly sophisticated one. Back in the olden times publishers used to pay people to write encyclopedia entries based on summarizing stuff they had read in other books. Nowadays we still do the same thing only with volunteer time (Wikipedia requires everything it contains to be externally sourced, after all. You can’t write anything into a Wikipedia article without reading it somewhere copyrighted first). OpenAI’s model isn’t so different. Source material, indexed and summarized to make it easier to search and use.