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OpenAI admits it's impossible to train generative AI without copyrighted materials

OpenAI said it's "impossible to train today's leading AI models without using copyrighted materials."

It would be "impossible to train today's leading AI models without using copyrighted materials," OpenAI wrote in its written evidence(PDF) submission for the committee's inquiry into LLMs, as first reported by the The Guardian. It added that "[l]imiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not provide AI systems that meet the needs of today's citizens." In some of the lawsuits filed against OpenAI and Microsoft, the plaintiffs accuse the companies of refusing to pay authors for their work while building a billion-dollar industry and enjoying enormous financial gain from copyrighted materials.

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