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>>davidb+(OP)
Someone probably already suggested this, but I haven’t seen it yet, so I’ll throw a wild speculation into the mix:

I saw a comment (that I can’t find now) wondering if Sam might have been fired for copyright reasons. Pretty much all the big corpuses that are used in LLM training contain copyrighted material, but that’s not a surprise and I really don’t think they’d kick him out over that. But what if he had a team of people deliberately adding a ton of copyrighted material - books, movies, etc - to the training data for ChatGPT? It feels like it might fit the shape of the situation.

>>water-+As
GPT-3 had "books1" and "books2" among its training material and "books2" never had its actual source disclosed :https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf

Speculations about these source materials can be traced back as far as 2020: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1320282152689336320

I don't think this issue would've flown under the radar for so long, especially with the implication that Ilya sided with the rest of the board to vote against Sam and Greg.