Comment by echoangle
6 months ago
How is the end user the one doing the infringement though? If I chat with ChatGPT and tell it „give me the first chapter of book XYZ“ and it gives me the text of the first chapter, OpenAI is distributing a copyrighted work without permission.
Can you do that though? Just ask ChatGPT to give you the first chapter of a book and it gives it to you?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42767775
Not a book chapter specifically but this could already be considered copyright infringement, I think.
If that’s the case, then sure, as I said in the first sentence of my comment, verbatim copies of copyrighted works would most likely constitute infringement.