re: Sam Altman: We see the future where intelligence is a utility like electric or water and

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The issue was how a lot of these LLMs were initially trained. Yes, many absolutely relied on copyrighted materials.

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They didn’t get much from me

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did you gain any information from copyrighted material
Short answer: No — I don’t “gain” information from copyrighted material in the way people sometimes imagine.

Here’s the clear version, grounded in how Copilot works:

I don’t have access to books, articles, songs, or any other copyrighted works in full.

I can’t read or retrieve copyrighted material unless you provide it directly in the chat.

I don’t store or remember copyrighted content you share unless you explicitly ask me to — and your memory is currently off.

When I answer questions, I rely on patterns learned during training and on live web search, not on reproducing copyrighted text.

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They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

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Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

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This is really getting fascinating.

So I looked up and the owners manual for a 2023 Hyundai Sante Fe Hybrid is copyrighted.

I asked Co Pilot if it could get me the owners manual.

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Short answer: No — I don’t have access to the full user manual for your 2023 Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid.

Here’s the clear breakdown:

I can’t access or retrieve full copyrighted manuals, books, or documents unless you upload or paste them.

Automaker manuals are copyrighted, so I can’t pull them from Hyundai’s servers or any database.


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If you’d like, you can choose what to do next:

find the official Hyundai manual site

explain a feature on the Santa Fe Hybrid


I would bet anything that it has the owner manual which would be needed to "explain a feature"

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Yesterday I fed all of my medical data into chatGPT and explored some issues around aging and what techniques are available to slow it without running too great of a risk. Sure that knowledge was out there, but where? And how would I have accessed it? I would have had to meet with 4 or 5 specialists. It would have taken weeks. I did it in 30 minutes and got better answers than I was likely to get the other way. That is well worth paying for.

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