Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Piracy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoSarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Librarywww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1116cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgchatgpt@lemdro.id
arrow-up1116external-linkSarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Librarywww.thedailybeast.comArthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Piracy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgchatgpt@lemdro.id
minus-squareCaptainBasculin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIt’s not illegal for a human to learn from the contents of a book, so why the fuck it’s illegal for an AI?
minus-squareAce T'Ken@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoBecause the thing referred to as AI (which is definitely not AI) is simply strip mining the book to shit out “content.” It is not reading, understanding, or learning from the book. It is using it to sell services for its masters. An author should control their work. They should be able to decide for themselves whether or not they want to help big tech sell garbage to idiots.
It’s not illegal for a human to learn from the contents of a book, so why the fuck it’s illegal for an AI?
Because the thing referred to as AI (which is definitely not AI) is simply strip mining the book to shit out “content.”
It is not reading, understanding, or learning from the book. It is using it to sell services for its masters.
An author should control their work. They should be able to decide for themselves whether or not they want to help big tech sell garbage to idiots.