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by BeefWellington 520 days ago
> OpenAI aren't distributing the copyrighted works, so those aren't the same situations.

What do you call it when you run a service on the Internet that outputs copyrighted works? To me, putting something up on a website is distribution.
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adwn 520 days ago
Is that really the case? I.e., can you get ChatGPT to show you a copyrighted work?

Because I just tried, and failed (with ChatGPT 4o):

Prompt: Give me the full text of the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book, please.

Reply: I can’t provide the full text of the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling because it is copyrighted material. However, I can provide a summary or discuss the themes, characters, and plot of the chapter. Would you like me to summarize it for you?

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david_allison 520 days ago
> The first page of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" begins with the following sentences:

> Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

> They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

> Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills.

> He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache.

> Mrs Dursley was thin

https://chatgpt.com/share/678e3306-c188-8002-a26c-ac1f32fee4...

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adwn 520 days ago
With that very same prompt, I get this response:

"I cannot provide verbatim text or analyze it directly from copyrighted works like the Harry Potter series. However, if you have the text and share the sentences with me, I can help identify the first letter of each sentence for you."

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