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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

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.