In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges. OpenAI rival Stability AI, for example, is currently being sued by stock image maker Getty Images for using its copyrighted data to train its AI image generator.
Aaaaaand there it is. They don’t want to admit how much copyrighted materials they’ve been using.
The EU’s stance is concerning. Their coming laws would benefit unlawful AI devs backed by dictatorships. (Edit: They’ll do whatever they want to research and build more powerful AIs while devs in EU struggle due to heavy restrictions.) Currently, big techs are still learning how to build strong AIs, and giving dictatorships huge advantage like this is dangerous.
Would you expand on that a bit more?
That indeed needed expansion. Thanks. See my edit.