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OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation (www.theverge.com)

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In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges. OpenAI rival Stability AI, for example, is currently being sued by stock image maker Getty Images for using its copyrighted data to train its AI image generator.

Aaaaaand there it is. They don’t want to admit how much copyrighted materials they’ve been using.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly this. I hate copyright as much as the next person and find it funny when corporate meddling leads to them fighting each other, but both sides of this leads to shitty precedent. While copyright enforcement already is a shitty precedent, its something we can fight. AI companies laundering massive amounts of data without having to hold up copyright could possibly lead to them also not having to abide to privacy laws in the future with similar arguments. Correct me if im wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Erm... what? No, that's a massive nonsequiter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not entirely. I do think that if copyright holders have an argument against AI data scraping, privacy watchdogs will have one as well. But if copyright holders don't have one, the position of privacy watchdogs will be weaker as well. Mind you, I'm not arguing about legality, I'm fully aware that those are two very different things from a legal perspective. Im arguing from a perspective of policy narratives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What is a privacy law?