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Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI
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I certainly hope that none of these authors have ever read a book before or have been inspired by something written by another author.
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.
What's the difference? On the most fundamental level it's all the same.
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.