[swimwiththebeat]

She definitely knows, she’s just trying to avoid any chance of future litigation by feigning ignorance. Makes sense since OpenAI’s been getting a lot of bad press for using copyright data in training their models.

[LudwigNagasena]

If someone asks an executive whether they do something illegal, and they reply that they don’t know; does it really protect them from anything or does it simply show negligence?

[dogma1138]

It protects the company, admission is pretty much asking for a law suite.

For these companies it’s especially important since even if copyright claims will come down the line they need to become big enough to be able to push back on them so they could force a favorable settlement.

[HeartStrings]

A bit yes

[jstummbillig]

Calling it "lot of bad press" seems like an overstatement (maybe looking through hn tinted glasses). Overall, I do not get the impression that people care super much relativ to the overall public interest in everything OpenAI.

[__loam]

They've been sued multiple times for it, including by the New York Times.