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My hunch is that if they did actually buy or properly license that material, they would have been bankrupt before the first version of ChatGPT came online. And if that's true, then OpenAI owes it's entire existence to it's piracy.
Its not piracy to just webscrap everything for data...
There isn't a person sitting around and pirating shit, its a Algorithm that takes everything from the internet it can reach.
Yeah... That's not a good defense if you think about it. If someone made a Reddit comment with the entire contents of Discworld (idk, just an example), and OpenAI scraped all of Reddit to train their model, well now they've used copyrighted material without paying for a commercial license, and now they're on the hook. By being unscrupulous about their scraping, they actually open themselves up to more liability than if they were more careful about what they scrape and where.
This is all to say nothing of the fact that several other major companies were caught pants down by training with databases explicitly created by torrenting a ton of books.
https://torrentfreak.com/authors-accuse-openai-of-using-pirate-sites-to-train-chatgpt-230630/
If I read an article and then I reference it or summarize it myself, that isn't copyright infringement. There's no difference if I have a computer do the work for me. It's fair use.