I tried reading the terms of service (TOS) at the left hand side of the site, and from what I understand PlushForums and the location of this server is located in Ireland. So, from what I understand Irish laws are pretty strict about the content of this forum.

The only reason I bring this up is because there's another forum that harvests posts of users for profit (which I wont identify). Forum content on a database can be worth a lot.

Sorry for the hassle for asking this.

Forum content on a database can be worth a lot. — Shawn

To whom? What for? I've never heard of this before. If you know more, please tell.

Your immortal soul is indentured to @Jamal for eternity on posting.

that's fine, as long as he's not making a profit.

All I can say is that I doubt it's happening here. Servers located in the US for forums can do this as much as they want...

Forum content on a database can be worth a lot. — Shawn

Really? Where do I sell?

In any case, once it's posted, it's published, to all intents and purposes, in that anyone can read the posts here, even if only registered members can enter them.

Well, this is a publicly visible forum so nothing stops ChatGPT from visiting the website and copying what shows on the page.

It's possible to stop this by creating a robots.txt file that tells ChatGPT that it's not allowed to visit, but PlushForums doesn't provide such a file.

As for the raw database, the PlushForums FAQ says "we do not sell or share your data with any third parties."

What @Michael said.

My posts are invaluable... so good luck trying to get money for them.

I like the idea I'm molding future versions of Ai's. Maybe idealism will get a boost.

And they'll write better stories.

I would feel very ashamed of myself if ChatGPT had access to read my posts with poor grammatical skills.

I would feel very ashamed of myself if ChatGPT had access to read my posts with poor grammatical skills. — javi2541997

It has occurred to me to wonder why anyone trains these machines on text that has not been vetted for grammatical and other errors. (My bugbear is typos). The results could be, let's say, interesting.

Just another reason for treating their output with immense caution.