i'm not even convinced either way on the training-data thing, like, if you had a human read everything on the internet and learn things from it, that's obviously fair use, and it's not instantly obvious that "use it to do this with a different structure of brain" has to be different.
i do think there's a lot of stuff that's just utter garbage being done with these, but at the same time, i think that if you look at the good end of things, and what those models can do, it seems pretty obvious they're actually very useful and potentially valuable -- just not in the ways that naive management consultants want them to be.
__________________ Hear me / and if I close my mind in fear / please pry it open See me / and if my face becomes sincere / beware Hold me / and when I start to come undone / stitch me together Save me / and when you see me strut / remind me of what left this outlaw torn
Mom wouldn't voluntarily talk to me on the phone half the time, and I can't imagine the horrors she'd unleash on me and the AI if I signed her up for this.