The Financial Timesannounceda deal withOpenAIon Monday to license its world-class journalism for training and informingChatGPTs models.
However, ChatGPT was trained on lots of other web-scraped content that OpenAI did not pay for.
So why is OpenAI paying for some datasets and not others?
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The main perk of a licensing deal seems to be a prominent spot in ChatGPTs answers.
However, it seems OpenAI is using a lot of publishers content anyways.
What is publicly available data anyway?
The phrase assumes anything free to read on the internet is also free to build into ChatGPT.
For instance, Gizmodo is part of OpenAIs publicly available data.
Gizmodo is free for readers largely due to the ads on this webpage.
If readers can access our content through ChatGPT that breaks our business model.
Butterick is the plaintiff in six copyright lawsuits against AI companies.
OpenAIs licensing deals raised an eyebrow around the content ChatGPT uses for free.
Similar to Google, AI chatbots have recently started including hyperlinks.
Ultimately, a court will have to decide whether generative AI is a fair use.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to Gizmodos request for comment.
Book authors and publishers are not the only ones OpenAI seems to be taking content from.
The New York Times recently reported that OpenAI trained GPT-4 on overone million hours of transcribed YouTube videos.
OpenAIs content licensing deals muddy the waters of the discussion.
The company is somehow using internet content for free, while also paying others for their work.
Adobe reportedly paid$3 per minute of videoto train its AI video generator.
However, its unclear if even a one-time payment for obtaining AI training data is sufficient.
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