Even though the written work is publicly available, much of it is protected under copyright law.According to OpenAI, ChatGPT doesn’t produce plagiarized outputs — it only learns from the ideas of the books and articles on which it is trained to produce unique content. That OpenAI could become a billion-dollar corporation by using human writers’ work to train its artificial intelligence machine does not sit well with many creators. Federal authorities have been slow to keep up because AI is such a new technology and is advancing at breakneck pace. Editorial writer Carla Hall, on seeing a ChatGPT-generated article in her voice and under her byline, remarked: “This is kinda wild! Silverman’s group alleges that OpenAI has fed ChatGPT with copyrighted books to “profit richly” from them.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 13, 2023 15:47 UTC