Elon Ally Revives Claim That ChatGPT Was Trained Illegally on X Data

A prominent Musk-aligned account alleged that OpenAI used X/Twitter data without authorization to train ChatGPT, resurfacing a legal and ethical dispute that hasn't been resolved.

The training data controversy between Musk's orbit and OpenAI resurfaced when @cb_doge, a prominent Musk-aligned account, alleged that ChatGPT was "trained illegally on X data." The claim isn't new — it dates back to early disputes about whether OpenAI had authorization to use Twitter/X content in its training corpus — but it keeps reappearing at politically convenient moments.

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