[cj]

Has anyone been able to create a prompt that GPT4 replies to with copyrighted content (or content extremely similar to the original content)?

I'm curious how easy or difficult it is to get GPT to spit out content (code or text) that could be considered obvious infringement.

Tempted to give it half of some closed-source or restrictive licensed code to see if it auto-completes the other half in a manner that is obviously recreating the original work.

[littlestymaar]

I don't know about GPT-4 but you could get ChatGPT to spit Carmac's Fast Inverse square root with the comments and all (I can't find the tweet though…)

Edit: it wasn't ChatGPT but Copilot see https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

[jameshart]

I can reproduce when prompted all the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody, but my doing so isn’t automatically copyright infringement. It would depend on where, when, how, in front of what audience, and to what purpose I was reciting them as to whether it was irrelevant to copyright law, protected under some copyright use case, civilly infringing, or criminally infringing copyright abuse.

The same applies to GPT. It could reproduce Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics in the course of answering questions and there’s no automatic breach of copyright that’s taking place. It’s okay for GPT to know how a well known song goes.

If copilot ‘knows how some code goes’ and is able to complete it, how is that any different?

[throwaway38249]

OK, it can exist without breaking any laws, but if you can't release anything it helps you write, what's the point?