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.

  • joe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What do you mean when you say “ripping off her work”? What do you think an LLM does, exactly?

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      1 year ago

      In her case, taking elements of her book and regurgitating them back to her. Which sounds a lot like they could be pirating her book for training purposes to me.

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            1 year ago

            So you’re saying that as long as they buy 1 copy of the book, it’s all good?

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              1 year ago

              No, I’m not saying that. If she’s right and it can spit out any part of her book when asked (and someone else showed that it does that with Harry Potter), it’s plagiarism. They are profiting off of her book without compensating her. Which is a form of ripping someone off. I’m not sure what the confusion here is. If I buy someone’s book, that doesn’t give me the right to put it all online for free.

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                1 year ago

                It’s not plagiarism if it says it’s her book, lol.

                What are your feelings on public libraries? And does it spit out the entire book, or just excerpts?

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                  1 year ago

                  I don’t think you understand what plagiarism is. When you profit off of someone else’s work, you’re plagiarizing. Libraries do not profit off of anything. OpenAI, however, is a for-profit endeavor.

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                    1 year ago

                    plagiarizing

                    This is taking someone’s work and passing it off as your own. Did you not do a simple google search when there was some doubt to the definition, like I just did?