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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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[-] Gibdos@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago

I certainly hope that none of these authors have ever read a book before or have been inspired by something written by another author.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

These are machines, though, not human beings.

I guess I'd have to be an author to find out how I'd feel about it, to be fair.

[-] Shurimal@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

These are machines, though, not human beings.

What's the difference? On the most fundamental level it's all the same.

[-] Wander@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Unless you think theres no difference between killing a person and closing a program, I think we can agree they should be treated differently in the eyes of the law.

And so theres a difference between a person reading a book and being inspired by it, and someone writing a program that automatically transforms the book in data that can create new books.

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