> > Isn't OpenAI mostly built upon disregarding the copyright of countless people?
> It sure was.
Can you cite something that elaborates on this point? Do people who read books and then learn from it also disregard copyright? How is what OpenAI does meaningfully different from what people do?
Yes. You can (could?) paste the “article preview” into GPT-4 and get full articles for free, basically pirating a NYT subscription. Here are “one hundred examples of GPT-4 memorizing content from the New York Times”:
DALL-E replicates artist’s lifestyle with no regard to copyright.
Sora is doing the same on YouTube videos. It blocks queries like “in the style of Wes Anderson” but it still uses that as training data and generating content.
