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Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

  • bouncing@partizle.comEnglish
    92·
    1 year ago

    There is already a business model for compensating authors: it is called buying the book. If the AI trainers are pirating books, then yeah - sue them.

    That’s part of the allegation, but it’s unsubstantiated. It isn’t entirely coherent.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      1 year ago

      It’s not entirely unsubstantiated. Sarah Silverman was able to get ChatGPT to regurgitate passages of her book back to her.

      • bouncing@partizle.comEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Her lawsuit doesn’t say that. It says,

        when ChatGPT is prompted, ChatGPT generates summaries of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works—something only possible if ChatGPT was trained on Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works

        That’s an absurd claim. ChatGPT has surely read hundreds, perhaps thousands of reviews of her book. It can summarize it just like I can summarize Othello, even though I’ve never seen the play.

      • AnonStoleMyPantsEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know if this holds water though. You don’t need to trail the AI on the book itself to get that result. Just on discussions about the book which for sure include passages on the book.