The Big Five publisher made a deal with an unnamed “artificial intelligence technology company” and is allowing authors to opt-in if they want to join the agreement.
  • TheTechnician27English
    46•1 month ago

    But then they sue the Internet Archive for hosting a library for the betterment of society. Capitalism is a plague.

  • @[email protected]
    19•1 month ago

    Owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has done more harm to the world than probably anyone who wasn’t an actual dictator, so unsurprising.

  • IninewCrowEnglish
    8•1 month ago

    Who says everything that’s ever been produced and being created right now (including this comment) isn’t just being mass collected and dumped into a LLM right now?

    It’s like pirating digital data like a movie or ebook, everyone is told not to do it but everyone is capable.

    Do you think capitalist, money hungry media companies haven’t already done it.

  • sunzu2
    4•1 month ago

    The new “Public Domain”

    Y’all remember the strategy of the Commons? 🐸

  • @[email protected]
    0•1 month ago

    If this is opt-out by default it’s at least not a complete dick move. The hard limit of $2500 compensation for opting in? Definitely a dick move.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 month ago

      It’s still a dick move, because Harper Collins has a huge amount of oligopoly power. Any supposed concession is likely of no real use to any authors who rely on the big companies to get published.