Sagan's Blue Dot bug: at least two models refuse to continue the famous quote

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I’ve tried researching if that particular quote is copyrighted, and the results where, not conclusive, although most sources say it is, while discussing why it should be fair use.

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter. Since OpenAI cannot be expected to know the copyright status of everything in the training corpus it makes sense to err on the side of caution and have a blanket prohibition on the verbatim recitation of training data.