If you describe a situation and OpenAI finds for you an existing image, you know what image database the image came from, and you know whether you're allowed to use it, and you know you're committing a crime, and OpenAI wants to relieve you of this final burden.
@mcc makes sense, the former sounds like an actual business model, not a way to accumulate so much wealth you can use it to grasp the levers of power
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