Every Chat GPT Response is a Work Derived from Extrapolating Existing Art and Prior Bodies of Book & Work

This is likely the most significant lawsuit in AI history – its outcome would have far-reaching impact on the whole industry.

The arguments get fairly philosophical. Quote: 

“The purpose of copyright law, OpenAI argued, is ‘to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts’ by protecting the way authors express ideas, but ‘not the underlying idea itself, facts embodied within the author’s articulated message, or other building blocks of creative,’ which are arguably the elements of authors’ works that would be useful to ChatGPT’s training model.”

Copyright is a tricky issue that I don’t have expert opinions on. But everyone in the field should read and follow the case: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20….

The other related and parallel cases are ongoing with Stability/MidJourney/any text-to-media businesses.