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It's one thing to notice OpenAI is stealing public content, but in this case it's suspected of using info that people prompted ChatGPT with privately.
How does one steal what is public?
This article is about stuff that was private, yes?
Well, one obvious example is licensing. You can have things that are presented online with a terms of service or an actual license that excludes certain uses.
One specific example would be GitHub and the sites like it. There are plenty of public facing code bases with licensing that would prohibit forms of reuse, like for financial gain.
And yes, this appears to be what the researchers believed to be private conversations, but are likely completely owned by the AI companies in their terms of service.
Do people consider conversations with LLMs private? I don't think there is actual guarantee which protects the conversations. ..are people that naive?
Yep.
The era of Google and big social media did real harm IMO. I suspect we used to have more scepticism around this sort of thing (dunno though). But getting addicted to things sure as hell is a good way to get you to ignore their problems.
The era of desktop computing really is gross in so many ways once you take a step back.
Huh? Desktop computing is just fine as long as you avoid Windows. It's the era of mobile computing that brought on all the problems.
Oh I didn’t know that! Thank you!
So the mathematicians were using ChatGPT in their work and that’s how they think it was scooped?
Thoigh to be fair, this doesn’t change my tune. That we aren’t all presuming every interaction will be part of future training data is bonkers to me.
That’s exactly the kind of data that turned LLMs into chat interfaces. And where else are AI companies going to get human generated text and feedback?
The extent to which the keys of the world have been handed over to a skynet system is fucking crazy!