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ChatGPT and its successor GPT-4 appear to have memorised details from vast numbers of copyrighted books, posing questions about the legality of how these large language models (LLMs) are created.
Both artificial intelligences were developed by private firm OpenAI and trained on huge amounts of data, but exactly which texts make up this training data is unknown. To find out more, David Bamman at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues looked at whether the AIs were able to …
