[chasing]

If you go read a book, memorize it, write it down later in a substantively similar form, and share it freely or sell it — yes, you might get into copyright trouble. It has happened before and it is at best a tricky gray area.

If you pick up a book and learn a fact, then yeah, you’re allowed to share that fact.

It’s weird that this topic keeps devolving into a form of “so what, it’s illegal for me to learn things?” Because: no, it’s not. And: You and a piece of software are treated differently under the law. You have a different set of rights than ChatGPT.

[DirkH]

Everything ChatGPT seems gray area and might which is probably why we are where we are.

[H8crilA]

> You have a different set of rights than ChatGPT.

Gods, no. Where did you get that from?

[Levitz]

Are you a human being? A citizen of some country? If so you definitely have a different set of rights than ChatGPT.

Those might not be a problem regarding this specific case, but the case can easily be made that it ought to be.

[DirkH]

I don't think ChatGPT has any rights yet... And a person using it has the exact same rights as someone not using it.

[H8crilA]

?

I don't understand your point. Do you think it makes any difference whether I use my laptop, or a pen, or ChatGPT to violate copyright?