Not really?

They wouldn't have used copyrighted material if it wasn't a survival matter for them, but sure you go ahead and pretend that they just happen to use it and not really need it that much.

	▲	bigyabai 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Anyone that doesn't at least acknowledge copyrighted materials will be a footnote. But you don't need it for AI's most profitable applications at all, eg. code generation or sentiment analysis. ChatGPT just exploits copyright because they can. You might not like it, but the die was cast years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....