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> It is also difficult to see how ChatGPT is competing with NYT Why? NYT paid for and put work into their writing, and they do make some money on holding the a
by dahart 3y ago
> It is also difficult to see how ChatGPT is competing with NYT
Why? NYT paid for and put work into their writing, and they do make some money on holding the archive of their work. Not everything they publish is breaking current events either. Chatgpt does not have to come up with new news in order to compete with NYT archive, their editors, their writing style, or their content, among other possibilities. AI’s very purpose is to absorb the content and style of its training data and be able to reproduce it more cheaply than the original. It doesn’t seem difficult at all to imagine many ways this does direct and indirect harm to NYT, or anyone who had to put effort or money into creating something valuable.
- satvikpendem 3y agoStyle and similar sorts of content is not necessarily copyrightable. I could write in the style of some author a similar story to one of theirs, like a murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie, but that doesn't make it copyright infringement.
- dahart 3y agoYeah that’s true, good point. It’s only infringement if you string enough of the exact same words together verbatim as the originals / training data. Same is true of content. The NNs aren’t yet good enough to avoid memorizing individual training samples, but something tells me they will be very soon.