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Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI (www.themarysue.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. People wouldn't be able to pirate my story through an AI, it wouldn't spit it out verbatim. They'd still need to buy or pirate it other ways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't need to, the AI just tells them what happens. Why are you against the author being able to consent for their work to be trained on and being compensated?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You think spoilers should be illegal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know, right? It's weird.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You appear to be saying that:

the AI just tells them what happens

Is a violation of the author's copyright.