Jun 11, 2018Single source
OpenAI's Training Data for LLMs Allegedly Comprised of Copyrighted Books
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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Two authors alleged in a class action lawsuit OpenAI infringed authors' copyrights by incorporating illegal "shadow libraries" offering copyrighted books without permission in the training data of its generative LLMs, such as ChatGPT.
What this means for youAuthors are suing over whether books taken from pirate libraries were used to train chatbots like ChatGPT. At work, writers and publishers may see this shape how AI tools can be used with copyrighted material.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/555
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
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