• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    17 days ago

    The same company went to court claiming that “GPT” (Generative Pre-trained Transformer, the generic term for the type of LLM most AI chatbots are) is a trademark that no one else can use, because their platform has it in the name.

    That’s like if Burger King were to say “burger” is their company’s trademark, so no one else is allowed to call their meat patty sandwiches “burgers.”

    Meanwhile, tech companies (including OpenAI) are pirating data to use to train their models, with the explicit intention of generating profit from them, and pretending they have an inalienable right to do so.

    They’re ingesting archives full of stolen IP, and raising a fuss about three letters…