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Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey are suing OpenAI and Meta over violation of their copyrighted books. The trio says their works were pulled from illegal “shadow libraries” without their consent.

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[–] d3Xt3r 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But there's no evidence, in this case anyway, that it was trained using the entire book(s). Multiple summaries of the author's works are available on various sites in the public domain, and GPT is capable of amalgamating all of them and summarizing it.

Now if you asked it to reproduce an entire book, or say some random non-free chapter or excerpt exactly word-by-word, that would be a issue, but so far I haven't seen any evidence that it was able to do so.

[–] Candelestine 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That'll come out during the case. I assume they have evidence, otherwise suing would be a waste of time. Unless some lawyer is taking them for a ride.

You only do need 51% certainty to win in civil court, though, so maybe they think they can just argue it? Still though, I'd want some sound evidence before going to court. Unless it's just a slapp-style suit, but that doesn't really fit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s an incredibly bold assertion.

[–] Candelestine 0 points 1 year ago

Do you never make those?