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On 03/05/2026 15:29, RonO wrote:

A couple of years ago I used ChatGPT to try to produce a picture of a chicken walking towards the observer.-a I got a basic chicken picture
that looked like a brown shell commercial layer, but it had 4 toes
facing forward and teeth visible in it's beak.-a Birds do not have toothy smiles and chickens normally walk with 3 toes forward.

I just got an email claiming that their visual graphic capabilities had improved and that I might find them useful.-a I probably haven't used ChatGPT for graphics for two years, but I have used it for other things.

I've seen a picture of a cowslip (Primula veris) generated by Google's
AI that was good enough to fool me. That's an advance on when I looked
AI images of Hibiscus a few months back - they tended to have obvious
errors.

How does ChatGPT make money?-a Do they sell the data that they create by user interaction?

Ron Okimoto

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alias Ernest Major

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RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

A couple of years ago I used ChatGPT to try to produce a picture of a chicken walking towards the observer. I got a basic chicken picture
that looked like a brown shell commercial layer, but it had 4 toes
facing forward and teeth visible in it's beak. Birds do not have toothy smiles and chickens normally walk with 3 toes forward.

I just got an email claiming that their visual graphic capabilities had improved and that I might find them useful. I probably haven't used
ChatGPT for graphics for two years, but I have used it for other things.

How does ChatGPT make money? Do they sell the data that they create by
user interaction?

Ron Okimoto

Courts have decided images created totally by AI can't be copyrighted,
but they can if AI use was only incidental. I don't know where your
chick pic falls in that continuum.

<https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/>

Re your other question, I'm not sure either how Open AI makes money on
ChatGPT.

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On 5/3/2026 5:24 PM, Samuel Spade wrote:

RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

A couple of years ago I used ChatGPT to try to produce a picture of a
chicken walking towards the observer. I got a basic chicken picture
that looked like a brown shell commercial layer, but it had 4 toes
facing forward and teeth visible in it's beak. Birds do not have toothy
smiles and chickens normally walk with 3 toes forward.

I just got an email claiming that their visual graphic capabilities had
improved and that I might find them useful. I probably haven't used
ChatGPT for graphics for two years, but I have used it for other things.

How does ChatGPT make money? Do they sell the data that they create by
user interaction?

Ron Okimoto

Courts have decided images created totally by AI can't be copyrighted,
but they can if AI use was only incidental. I don't know where your
chick pic falls in that continuum.

<https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/>

Re your other question, I'm not sure either how Open AI makes money on ChatGPT.

Open AI is supposed to be a non-profit, but has a profit based arm that
is supposed to be controled by the non-profit. It is supposed to be
valued at half a trillion dollars, but ChatGPT is free to use.

Ron Okimoto

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