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by soared 518 days ago
There is an argument to be made that ChatGPT mildly rewording/misquoting info directly from my blog is copying.
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And it is. And you can sue them for that. What you can’t do is get upset they (or their AI) read it.
Sure, but that's a different claim and a different argument.
I think to make that argument you would need evidence that someone prompted ChatGPT to reword/misquote info directly from your blog, at which point the argument would be that that person is rewording/misquoting info directly from your blog, not ChatGPT.
I don't think so: The user is merely making a request for copyrighted material, which is not itself infringing, even if their request was extremely specific and their intent was obvious.

OpenAI would be the company actually committing the infringement and providing the copy in order to satisfy the request.

If the law suddenly worked the other way around, companies would no longer be able to prosecute people for hosting pirated content online, because the responsibility would lie with the users choosing to initiate the download.

That would fall under fair use.

Legally, you'd struggle to prove any form of infringement happened. Making a copy is fine. Distributing copies is what infringes. You'd need to prove that is happening.

That's why there aren't a lot of court cases from pissed off copyright holders with deep pockets demanding compensation.