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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9371935" data-attributes="member: 57073">Did OpenAI train ChatGPT using only the temporary files cached by their internet browsers? Or did they save all the copyrighted files they scraped onto a server; compile those otherwise unmodified works into an indexed training set; and then use that stored data as a commercial asset for one full cycle of their AI training process before deleting it?I suspect the second scenario is the more likely of the two, and that's the part of the process I can't get behind. I don't have any strong opinions about a neural net creating images in a particular artist's style, especially if the machine demonstrably doesn't store copies of that artist's work. One can argue the neural network isn't violating any copyrights if it doesn't have anything to copy. So, for the sake of argument, let's not even talk about that.Let's talk about the private company who's using copyrighted works as building blocks in a training set stored on its private servers, for use as a software development tool. That data set isn't creative, it isn't transformative, and it isn't Fair Use. If someone is going to compile copyrighted works into a proprietary commercial asset they're using to add value to their for-profit software development process, they should have to get permission from the copyright holders before doing so. Anything short of that is a copyright right violation or two (or a few billion, as the case may be).</blockquote>

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