A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.

  • dr_catman@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    If the rumor is true that OpenAI is using libgen to obtain books, then this will be a very interesting fight.

    Authors profiteering from arcane copyright laws vs. a sleazy company that hypes up an LLM as if it were HAL from 2001. Who is worse? Who should lose?! I’m on the edge of my seat already!

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      1 year ago

      Authors profiteering from arcane copyright laws

      I get this argument from the film, movie, television, videogame industry, and other more modern ones out there. But outside a handful of actual big name authors the average writer isnt exactly raking it in.

      Also thanks to being a relic of the past we do still have libraries which offer books for free to read with a subscription and not only is this common, but its a celebrated thing among most authors and the reading community.