In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges. OpenAI rival Stability AI, for example, is currently being sued by stock image maker Getty Images for using its copyrighted data to train its AI image generator.
Aaaaaand there it is. They don’t want to admit how much copyrighted materials they’ve been using.
But OpenAI’s models are proprietary. I’m a bit with Stable Diffusion since the models are open, but fuck OpenAI. OpenAI is not in favor of reduced copyrights. They are in favor of not being negatively affected by copyright, but still benefit from it.