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.

  • @sab
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    131 year ago

    Using it to (create a tool to) create derivatives of the work on a massive scale.

    • FaceDeer
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      1 year ago

      An AI model is not a derivative work. It does not contain the copyrighted expression, just information about the copyrighted expression.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Wikipedia: In copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work.

      I think you may be off a bit on what a derivative work is. I don’t see LLMs spouting out major copyrightable elements of books. They can give a summary sure, but Cliff Notes would like to have a word if you think that’s copyright infringement.

      • @sab
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        1 year ago

        I didn’t know those were LLMs, TIL.

    • @Touching_Grass
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      -31 year ago

      Well when that happens we have laws. So no problems

      • @sab
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        21 year ago

        Would you be okay with applying that argument for any crime?

        • FaceDeer
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          31 year ago

          I would be, and I don’t understand why you think this would be a problem. I wouldn’t want the government to be preventing activities that there weren’t any actual laws prohibiting.

        • @Touching_Grass
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          01 year ago

          Ever heard of the early 21st century classic Minority Report

          • @sab
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            41 year ago

            You’re missing the point. I’ll make your example more specific.

            Well when fraud/rape/murder happens we have laws. So no problems.

            Those things happen. Creating a LLM based on copyrighted material without permission happens - it’s not a hypothetical. But even then, giving a punishment after the fact does not make the initial crime “no problem”, as you put it.