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Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships

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Guaranteed value is a licensing payment that compensates the publisher for allowing OpenAI to access its backlog of data, while variable value is contingent on display success, a metric based on the number of users engaging with linked or displayed content. ... “The PPP program is more about scraping than training,” said one executive. “OpenAI has presumably already ingested and trained on these publishers’ archival…

> OpenAI has presumably already ingested and trained on these publishers’ archival data So they're admitting to copyright violations and theft?

Whether training a model on text constitutes copyright infringement is an unresolved legal question. The closest precedent would be search engines using automated processes to build an index and links, which is generally not seen as infringing (in the US).

Re: Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships

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Guaranteed value is a licensing payment that compensates the publisher for allowing OpenAI to access its backlog of data, while variable value is contingent on display success, a metric based on the number of users engaging with linked or displayed content. ... “The PPP program is more about scraping than training,” said one executive. “OpenAI has presumably already ingested and trained on these publishers’ archival…

> OpenAI has presumably already ingested and trained on these publishers’ archival data So they're admitting to copyright violations and theft?

No, they have not done that. Presumably they believe that the model training was done in fair use and no court has said otherwise yet.

It will take years for that stuff to settle out in court, and by that time none of that will matter, and the winners of the AI race will be those who didn't wait for this question to be settled.

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Meanings of words change over time. Maybe they just gain a new meaning at some point. A "Steam Deck" matches none of those for example. This is a very well understood and established term. I fail to see what you made this comment.

> A "Steam Deck" matches none of those for example.

That usage is from cyberpunk. It's from Burning Chrome (1982) by William Gibson. "She took a little simstim deck from her belt and showed me the broken hinge on the cassette cover". What he's describing is similar to the belt pack of the Apple Vision headgear. Gibson's headgear is a headband that transmits into the brain, not clunky goggles.

Re: Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships

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>Additionally, members of the program receive priority placement and “richer brand expression” in chat conversations, and their content benefits from more prominent link treatments. Finally, through PPP, OpenAI also offers licensed financial terms to publishers.

This is what a lot of people pushing for open models fear - responses of commercial models will be biased based on marketing spend.

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ugh, sometimes i think that i should've finished making the ai bot for my partner to help her boring media job at dotdash meredith, then cashed out. but working on it made me miserable, and it's not a valuable tool to society.

here is an etl where i was attempting to train it on southern living and food & wine articles so it could output text for those dumb little content videos that you see at the top of every lifestyle brand article: https://github.com/smcalilly/zobot-trainer

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