and have sued OpenAI and its investor Microsoft over suspicions that ChatGPT was trained on their copyrighted works.Now, it turns out, the lawyers’ research into the training data was erased last week by OpenAI engineers, presumably by accident.NY Times lawyers had their potential evidence against OpenAI deleted Kyle Wiggers writes for : The aforementioned letter has been published online here for all to read.
It seems that after NY Times lawyers spent significant time compiling data from ChatGPT’s training set, their research was erased by OpenAI.The letter states that OpenAI was later able to recover much of the data—but only in a form that makes it unusable in legal proceedings.Thus, it can’t be deployed against OpenAI in the case, and the expensive and time consuming work begins anew.
9to5Mac’s Take The training data used by various AI companies unfortunately remains shrouded in a lot of vagueness.Not every publisher has the resources to pursue legal action against tech giants, but to then have your work accidentally deleted by OpenAI engineers? It’s a bad look, to say the least.What do you make of this story? Let us know in the comments.
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