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Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] NevermindNoMind 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is interesting in terms of copyright law. So far the lawsuits from Sarah Silverman and others haven't gone anywhere on the theory that the models do not contain a copies of books. Copyright law hinges on whether you have a right to make copies of a work. So the theory has been the models learned from the books but didn't retain exact copies, like how a human reads a book and learns it's contents but does not store an exact copy in their head. If the models "memorized" training data, including copyrighten works, OpenAI and others may have a problem (note the researchers said they did this same thing on other models).

For the silicone valley drama addicts, I find it curious that the researchers apparently didn't do this test on Bard of Anthropic's Claude, at least the article didn't mention them. Curious.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Copyrighten" is an interesting grammatical construction that I've never seen before. I'd assume it would come from a second language speaker.

It looks like a mix of "written" and "righted".

"Copywritten" isn't a word I've ever heard, but it would be a past tense form of "copywriting", which is usually about writing text for advertisements. It's a pretty niche concept.

"Copyrighted" is the typical form for works that have copyright.

I'm not a grammar nazi - what's right & wrong is about what gets used which is why I talk about the "usual" form and not the "correct" form - but "copyrighted" is the clearest way to express that idea.