Na, I’m not a party to the lawsuit. Already spoke to a lawyer about it. It’s standard to put anyone on notice who might become a witness. They’ll request whate

Na, I’m not a party to the lawsuit. Already spoke to a lawyer about it. It’s standard to put anyone on notice who might become a witness. They’ll request whatever information they think I might have that could help their case, and might call me in for a deposition. And they’ll probably lose. It’s pretty clear that the output matters, not the input. What sucks is that we can’t open source any training data anymore. So no one can make a competitor to ChatGPT. Even eleuther was cowed into silence with legal threats. They’re trying to make a non-copyrighted version of The Pile, but it’ll be hard to amass the data quality necessary. Meanwhile private companies can just vacuum up everything.