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by safety1st 1091 days ago
Scraping is a bit of a legal gray area though. If you were to go scrape 300 billion words from the Internet, you probably would be committing a crime somewhere. Especially if you then reproduced some of those words verbatim for paying customers as ChatGPT does...

I am sure OpenAI thought all this through, so I can only assume they said "fuck it let's pull an Uber and do this anyway." We are in for lots of interesting legal headlines