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.

    • FaceDeer
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      111 year ago

      It hasn’t been tested in court yet but I don’t see why it shouldn’t.

      • just another devA
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        81 year ago

        Fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work.

        I don’t see why it should.

        • FaceDeer
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          81 year ago

          The creation of the AI model is transformative. The AI’s model does not contain a literal copy of the copyrighted work.

          • just another devA
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            61 year ago

            No, but the training data does contain a copy. And making a model is not criticising, commenting upon, or creating a parody of it.

                • @[email protected]
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                  41 year ago

                  It’s not. The humans that trained it (assumably) purchased the material used to train it. What’s the problem?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    31 year ago

                    The use of the material to create a commercial product as well as the reality being that the humans training it never buy the data on an individual level.

            • FaceDeer
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              61 year ago

              That list is not exclusive, it’s just a list of examples of fair use.

              The training data is not distributed with the AI model.

              • just another devA
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                1 year ago

                it’s just a list of examples of fair use.

                Yes, it’s a list of quite similar ways of commenting upon a work. Please explain how training an LLM is like any of those things, and thus, how Fair use would apply.

                • FaceDeer
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                  11 year ago

                  I’m not saying that training an LLM is like any of those things. I’m saying it doesn’t have to be like those things in order for it to still be fair use.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 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.