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Blog post from former OpenAI scientist Suchir Balaji arguing that the firm's scraping is not protected by the "fair use" provisions of copyright law. suchir.net/fair_use.html
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If upheld by courts, Balaji's perspecte would recast generative AI as massive theft of intellectual property, and throw the Generative AI business model into jeopardy.
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“It doesn’t feel right to be training on people’s data and then competing with them in the marketplace,” Balaji told the AP in late October. “I don’t think you should be able to do that. I don’t think you are able to do that legally.”
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Less than five weeks after the post, Balaji was found dead in what is currently thought by authorities to be a suicide. theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/21/openai-whistleblower-dead-aged-26