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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 9456571" data-attributes="member: 7037141">Hi there, I see that you are excited about testing out ai chatbots, but I have to [respectfully] warn you that this experiment is dealing with copyrighted materials. I mention this because I doubt that either Free League or the Middle Earth LLC have given you consent to have their copyrighted materials uploaded to an ai platform. I am trying to tell you that while you may be doing this with the best of intentions, you may have just accidentally trained an ai chatbot on copyrighted material without the consent of the creators. OpenAI then uses this data you provided to them to further train their models. Can you see how that might be a problem? (MELLC is well known for being litigous as well, FYI).One of the most contentious issues revolving around generative AI is the lack of consent, credit, or compensation for the original creators. By doing this, you are unintentionally normalizing the wholesale theft of intellectual property by companies like OpenAI.I seriously have doubts on this, as you took all the text wholesale from several Free League books and uploaded them to OpenAI (which then uses that data to further train their future models). You could have chosen to use something that is more "open" for use by the public, such as the 5.1 SRD (still unsure if it is legal, as CC has its own legal requirements, but it is certainly not as bad as uploading The One Ring RPG to OpenAI).To be clear, I am not trying to call you out, I am expressly trying to illustrate just how easy it is for the general public to accidentally do this kind of thing when you are excited and getting into it. As much as I would like to see the [potential] good these tools can do, so far they are only succeeding in making the theft of creative works easier.I understand that you are coming from a place of good intentions, but I think that if you took a moment to think about the writers, whose material you casually copy pasted and uploaded to OpenAI without asking them, I think that they might have something to say about that.Next time, I would recommend you look into using data that is available to the public. Planty of stuff exists in the public domain and in the creative commons.</blockquote>

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