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Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI (www.themarysue.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. decided that it is fair use to scan books and make large parts of them available verbatim on the net. What AI does is far more transformative than that, as very little of a book can be reproduced verbatim with AI (e.g. popular quotes), you really just get "knowledge" from the books. The sources are however lost in the process, unlike with Google, which by itself however also makes it difficult to argue for copyright violation, since you can't point at what was actually copied.