So if I’m reading this right. In essence he said ChatGPT basically slightly edits training data and regurgitates that as if it was completely new material when it’s just slightly edited versions of the material it was trained on.

Hardly seems like something worth killing a guy over. Though I suppose it’d be worth killing over to hide from investors and other competitors whose programs are far ahead of OpenAI. In that they seem actually capable of generating novel and new material