Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]

So what

What this event means by reading role—not a longer recap.

BuilderExpect tighter scrutiny of training-data provenance and paywall handling, so builders should document data sourcing and licensing before shipping content-adjace
ResearcherInternal admissions that GPT-4 'memorized a ton of data' and regurgitates verbatim are concrete evidence for memorization and copyright research agendas.
InvestorUnsealed filings strengthen publishers' copyright leverage and raise legal risk for OpenAI and Microsoft, a factor in pricing and distribution deals.

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