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0 pointsstephendause3y ago0 comments

Suppose I write a unique and deeply technical textbook on a subject. Someone could buy that book, read it, become an expert on that subject, and then profit from that expertise. This is all well and good. One of the things that makes ChatGPT different is its ability to scale such that it can provide that expertise to a much larger number of people and at a much lower cost.

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nicoburns3y ago

> One of the things that makes ChatGPT different is its ability to scale such that it can provide that expertise to a much larger number of people and at a much lower cost.

That, and the fact that it regularly spouts "facts" that are complete nonesense.

taylorlapeyre3y ago

I will point out that human Hacker News commenters also commonly spout "facts" that are complete nonsense; in fact, it is us that trained it to do so.

freeqaz3y ago

Where is the limit with copyright law then? Is ChatGPT allowed to be trained on books?

If the "terms" of the book ban it, can I just read the book and then write notes which I upload to ChatGPT? (Would a Microsoft employee be paid to take classes/read books for the purpose?)

I don't think we know the answers here yet. Information wants to be free though and we're going to have to reconcile that moving forward!

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