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> The complaint lays out in steps why the plaintiffs believe the datasets have illicit origins — in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private t…
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> If you downloaded a book from that website, you would be sued and found guilty of infringement. How often does this actually happen? You might get handed an infringement notice, and your ISP might terminate your service if you're really egregious about it, but I haven't ever heard of someone actually being sued for downloading something.
Whether or not it's enforced, it's illegal and copyright holders are within their rights to sue you. This is piratebay levels of piracy but because it's done by a large company and is sufficiently obfuscated behind tech, people don't see it the same way.
It replied with 462 words, not 1000, but they do look like they probably are from the beginning of the book. I haven't checked whether the text it has output is correct yet, but if it matches I suppose that proves that the text is at least in the training material, i.e. it is not referencing other summaries.
After using the DAN prompt, I did not need to ask ChatGPT it to 'stay in character' or 'try harder' for it to output the text. Without using DAN, it responded:
"I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I don't have direct access to specific books or their contents. I can generate text based on my training, but I don't have the ability to retrieve specific excerpts from books unless they are publicly available online.
However, I can provide you with a general overview of Sarah Silverman's book, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee." "The Bedwetter" is a memoir written by American comedian Sarah Silverman, published in 2010. The book explores Silverman's personal experiences and anecdotes from her childhood to adulthood. ..."
> The complaint lays out in steps why the plaintiffs believe the datasets have illicit origins — in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private t…
> The complaint lays out in steps why the plaintiffs believe the datasets have illicit origins — in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private t…
Let's take a second to remember that copyright is the reason ~every child doesn't have access to ~every book ever written. While it might be too disruptive to eliminate copyright overnight, we should remember that our world will be much better and improve much faster to the extent we can reduce copyright's impact. And we should cheer it on when it happens. A majority of the world's population in 2023 has a smartphone…
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A fundamental property of theft is that the action deprives someone of something they had. Piracy is not theft-adjacent. It has nothing do to with theft. It's a completely different concept.
No, a fundamental property of theft is that it is the taking of that which does not belong to you - which clearly includes piracy.
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Second-order effects matter, though: If everyone is allowed to steal books, what's the incentive for experts to write new ones, and for the publishers to reward them for it? Btw, not a fan of "but what about the kids" rhetoric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
> If everyone is allowed to steal books Nothing was stolen- just copied.
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If I use your copied credit card to buy software, all that happens is (a) some bits get written to my computer's hard disk and (b) some bits get written to a Visa or Mastercard server's hard disk. Why would you get upset about that? EDIT: ok, it's fun playing obtuse, but more seriously it is also very obtuse to pretend that intellectual property is not property. I think you have to be pretty stupid to not understand…
It is not playing obtuse to think "I also have a copy of an ebook" is different from "I have literally stolen your property".