Under copyright laws, if HN's T's & C's didn't override it, anything I write and have written on HN is my IP. And the AI data hoarders used it to train their stuff.
For example, copyright makes it illegal to take an entire book and republish it with minor tweaks. But for something short like an HN comment this doesn’t apply; copyright always permits you to copy someone’s ideas, even when that requires using many of the same words.
I think most people think that AI training means copying vast troves of data onto ChatGPT hard drives for the model to actively reference.
a) The model and the data
b) Why are we meeting in the middle?