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Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey are suing OpenAI and Meta over violation of their copyrighted books. The trio says their works were pulled from illegal “shadow libraries” without their consent.

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[–] RGB3x3 12 points 1 year ago

I really don't think it should be considered copyright infringement to simply ingest data. It doesn't infringe on copyright for a person to read a book, why should it matter if it's a simple program or an AI doing it?

That said, if the AI produces something in the exact words or style of a creator without attribution, just like with a person, then it should count as copyright infringement.

It's all about perceived harm. A creator is not harmed by an AI reading their works. But they are harmed when the AI can produce their style to potentially take business away from them.