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Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)

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Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement.

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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It’s difficult to tell to what extent books are encoded into the model. The data might be there in some abstract form or another.

During training it is kind of instructed to plagiarize the text it’s given. The instruction is basically “guess the next word of this unfinished excerpt”. It probably won’t memorize all input it’s given, but there’s a nonzero chance it manages to memorize some significant excerpts.