Adrian Segar

I just asked #ChatGPT to summarize a chapter of one of my © books that has never been made publicly available by me on the internet.

It provided a summary that could not have been produced without access to the original text.

#OpenAI is illegally violating my copyright.

Jul 11, 2023 at 4:20pmWeb
Show threadKirk BiglioneJul 11, 2023
@ASegar if the book has never been published, OpenAI must be doing a whole lot more than violating your copyright.
Show threadAdrian SegarJul 11, 2023

@kbiglione The book was published and copyright registered with the United States Copyright Office in 2010.

Its contents have never been publically published _on the internet_ by me.

Show threadKirk BiglioneJul 11, 2023
@ASegar Scanned by Google Books, perhaps? Or obtained via one of the many pirate sites as claimed in the recent lawsuits. Or even summarized based on reviews and online commentary. In any case, I expect the result of these lawsuits will look a lot like the result of the Authors Guild vs. Google Books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc.#:~:text=The%20court's%20summary%20of%20its,are%20non%2Dinfringing%20fair%20uses.
Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. - Wikipedia

Show threadAdrian SegarJul 11, 2023

@kbiglione Probably a pirate site. I used to see many sites offering to sell anyone a "free" copy of my book, though you needed to register first which I never bothered to do to see if they actually had it.

I checked on a boring chapter that has never been reviewed or commented on.

Regardless, not holding my breath about the outcome.

My entire 13 years of public posts on meeting design (~500K words) have been incorporated into ChatGPT and other LLMs according to https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart

An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

The Washington Post
Show threadNicolas Noble Jul 11, 2023
@ASegar not trying to defend OpenAI in any way here, but would it be possible that ChatGPT is simply regurgitating an actual summary made by someone else publicly ?
Show threadAdrian SegarJul 12, 2023
@nicolas_noble I chose a boring chapter from my book that, as far as Google knows, no one has ever summarized publicly. The book was frequently mentioned on pirate sites, and that's probably where OpenAI or a contractor scraped it from.
Show threadNicolas Noble Jul 12, 2023
@ASegar fair enough then! Have you tried on other generative AIs like Bard ?
Show threadAdrian SegarJul 12, 2023
@nicolas_noble No, I haven't. Trying to maintain a balance between documenting injustices and enjoying/getting on with my life 😀.
Show threadNicolas Noble Jul 12, 2023
@ASegar fair enough too :-)