@ZachWeinersmith @cstross I only wish that OpenAI and...

@ZachWeinersmith @cstross
I only wish that OpenAI and their ilk would stop scraping copyrighted content.

However, as I shared on the @nytimes, OpenAI has definitely incorporated the entire text of at least one of my (copyright registered in 2010) books on meeting design into the ChatGPT database.

See the replies to my comment to see folks questions about copyright and my responses.

Gift link (click on comments and then Readers Picks to view): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/technology/chatgpt-investigation-ftc-openai.html?unlocked_article_code=zQStECBrrFhPBhU3blM7qStSiHWVxV47WSBJcRfDYNVb8I1nAydquS_ykDX9gBSzw_MEDdpOfHr54PwAjPGaVKEFXuBp-jTtoQJRviDdDIKMzBe3ZlOZB1_9mux9YP9dHVrDCij2fsLFLge1ZrrqP-kNHrOpgRqMZZeef3v96mcCB8N6ki-0GcbQ9cYZpJaKsgeyLowW_oE_2Ex2JPs3C_Hk_resfb8gxPuAfktwTKMxDLN7MvckgcXl71vtQXfRoG7IdX-rSeVQCalB2_u-A4w0GYjiPicNWU2UO2tApXz4e7gUYFKAb79CoRoQTd-46VpL8zWztkYzB91aovHSNBfeeQQUtcwKdadp&smid=url-share

NY Times headline: F.T.C. Opens Investigation Into ChatGPT Maker Over Technology’s Potential Harms

Subhead: The agency sent OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, a letter this week over consumer harms and the company’s security practices.

AJS (Adrian Segar) Comment: The content of at least one of my books on meeting design, copyright registered in 2010 with the United States Copyright Office, has been added to ChatGPT's database without my permission. It was probably scraped from one of the illegal pirate internet libraries of scanned books.

Though I'm weakly flattered that ChatGPT has also incorporated every single post I've written on my meeting design blog (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words), OpenAI's flagrant misappropriation of copyrighted works from pirate databases for their own financial gain is beyond the pale.

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