The model is trained on web-pages of different (I think so) legal copyright status. Most of web-page owners didn’t provide license that their content will be used to train a neural net. So the model is massive copyright violation and could be seized by government. However, the model is nothing without supportive scientists, so it can’t be used by an outsider.
That’s not how copyright works. US copyright law is civil, not criminal, which means that the US government can’t act on infringements of its own initiative. A web site owner could theoretically sue OpenAI claiming that OpenAI infringed their copyright, but they’d probably lose, for a number of reasons.
The US has criminal copyright law. I thought it was recent, but Wikipedia says it’s actually been around since 1897.
The probability of the governemnt trying to USE it in this kind of case is epsilon over ten, though. And as you say, they’d probably lose if they did, because the neural network isn’t really derivative of the Web pages, and even if it is it’s probably fair use.
The model is trained on web-pages of different (I think so) legal copyright status. Most of web-page owners didn’t provide license that their content will be used to train a neural net. So the model is massive copyright violation and could be seized by government. However, the model is nothing without supportive scientists, so it can’t be used by an outsider.
That’s not how copyright works. US copyright law is civil, not criminal, which means that the US government can’t act on infringements of its own initiative. A web site owner could theoretically sue OpenAI claiming that OpenAI infringed their copyright, but they’d probably lose, for a number of reasons.
The US has criminal copyright law. I thought it was recent, but Wikipedia says it’s actually been around since 1897.
The probability of the governemnt trying to USE it in this kind of case is epsilon over ten, though. And as you say, they’d probably lose if they did, because the neural network isn’t really derivative of the Web pages, and even if it is it’s probably fair use.