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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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[–] RalphWolf@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Does this fall under fair-use part of copyright?

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The training argument is probably going to come up dry by the time the court works its way through expert testimony, as the underlying argument for training as infringement is insane.

But where OpenAI is probably in hot water is that torrenting 100k books in the first place runs afoul of existing copyright legislation.

Everyone is debating the training in these suits, but the real meat and potatoes is going to be the initial infringement of obtaining the books, not how they were subsequently used.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do they also complain when their books are used to train wet networks in public schools? those networks are also later exploited by corporations who dont give back the writers. hmmmmmmm

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