In particular, it shows that Altman and his ilk scoff at the idea of consent. In a different world, they could have built systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E by starting with licensed training data, or training data in the public domain, or even just training data that allowed creators to opt in. (View Highlight)
Usually, the victims are small-time artists and writers who can no longer compete with an algorithm that can churn out an error-laden imitation of their style. (View Highlight)
But in picking a fight with Johansson, Altman and his OpenAI cronies have turned an unflattering spotlight on their own shortcomings. (View Highlight)
More fundamentally, it also makes it increasingly hard to even see Altman’s crew as competent. The timeline he seems to have established — that he reached out for permission, didn’t get it, and went ahead anyway, complete with the coy little “her” tweet — is far more damning than simply building a chatbot that sounded a lot like Johansson. (View Highlight)
And to Johansson’s credit, the fight doesn’t sound entirely personal: she explicitly connected OpenAI’s disrespect to the broader harms brought on by its work and AI tech writ large. (View Highlight)
