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Not sure anyone has to show evidence when OpenAI themselves openly admit to using copyrighted work?
What they are doing is claiming that this falls under the American Fair Use doctrine. The many ongoing court cases will tell us more, although I expect it can take 5-10 years for many of those cases to be finalised.
When it comes to image generators there have been many instances of copyright symbols being generated, as well as the Getty Images watermark. An image, or text, of course does not need the copyright symbol to be considered copyrighted, but it is the type of evidence that gives certainty to the supposition.
Researchers have also shown that chapters of many copyrighted books, such as Harry Potter, can be reproduced *almost verbatim using ChatGPT.
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/05/03/openai_chatgpt_copyright/