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ChatGPT And Injustice To Authors
Please consider this scenario
You create a blog and write lots of articles, there are copyright laws protecting your content and you allow humans to take inspiration from your content and create their own but not 100% copy it. But you and 99% of other authors or even copyright committee didn’t expect a machine to take inspiration from the content so there were no laws regarding that.
Did openAI did any injustice to these authors by training chatGPT on their content without taking their permission and they took advantage of the fact that there were no machine-laws created yet? Because on one hand, there were no laws for machines about taking inspiration from others’ content when it was trained but on the other hand, after it has been trained and launched, people are really upset that they should have been asked because chatGPT is a bigger threat to their business. Chatgpt also sometimes, although rarely, creates content that is exactly as the original and even worse is if someone asks chatgpt to write summary of a book, they get that summary for free or can even write in original author’s style if asked to do so.
What is your take on this? Did openAI do any injustice by taking advantage of the situation?
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ChatGPT And Injustice To Authors
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This is a complex legal issue due to the Fair Use clause in the copyright law. For details please see this article on Bloomberg Law. There are already lawsuits filed against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. In matters such as this, we should allow the legal experts to deliberate and decide. If ChatGPT was indeed trained on copyrighted material in a manner that is beyond the Fair Use clause then it is certainly unethical and OpenAI should be required to take corrective measures.
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