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If US companies can't train on copyrighted material China will.

> Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.

"I am shocked, shocked, to find that copyright infringement is going on in here."

"Your LLM, sir."

"(Oh, thank you very much.)"

Beauty of Capitalism: everything has a price.

Next time please pay me $5 when you sell my data.

even if you want to accept the ‘copyright is less important than getting to AGI before a government we deem less moral than us’ argument, i find it hard to believe things like emulating studio ghibli art styles, are a necessary part of that path.