There is no official ruling... yet. We are very early in this rapid public development. Laws and rulings take years or decades.
They are trained on a lot of text. News sites, comments, books etc. Most books and news sites fall under copyright. Is this fair use? Who knows. Fair use is also an American thing. ChatGPT can be used in the EU, which doesn't have such a broad view of fair use.
If you make a game only out of a lot of copyrighted assets without paying it isn't fair use. Are LLMs different?
What about image generation, which you can prompt the models for specific styles of artists, which works are all copyrighted, but still used for training?
They are trained on a lot of text. News sites, comments, books etc. Most books and news sites fall under copyright. Is this fair use? Who knows. Fair use is also an American thing. ChatGPT can be used in the EU, which doesn't have such a broad view of fair use.
If you make a game only out of a lot of copyrighted assets without paying it isn't fair use. Are LLMs different?
What about image generation, which you can prompt the models for specific styles of artists, which works are all copyrighted, but still used for training?