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> ... what is constant is that the company can use > our conversations with ChatGPT to train the model. This is not a > surprise or a secret, the company has always reported it. > There is no doubt that ChatGTP itself is not libre - its model is not > available to public. However, users of the ChatGPT model are technically > providing input that is collaboratively editing that model weights > (training the model further). So, using ChatGTP is a little bit akin > editing Wikipedia pages - collaborating to improve ChatGTP. That is a valid point, at the practical level. But the differences are crucial. 1. In Wikipedia, a contributor voluntarily chooses to participate in editing, Editing participation is separate from consulting the encyclopedia. This fits the word "collaborating. By contrast, a when the develoers of ChatGTP make it learn from the user, that "contribution" is neither voluntary nor active. It is more "being taken advantage of" than "collaborating". 2. Wikipedia is a community project to develop a free/libre work. (It is no coincidence that this resembles the GNU Project.) Morally it deserves community support, despite some things it handles badly. By contrast, ChatGTP is neither a community project nor free/libre. That's perhaps why it arranges to manipulate people into "contributing" rather than letting them choose. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
