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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    229 months ago

    They aren’t reselling their information, they’re linking you to the source which then the website decides what to do with your traffic. Which they usually want your traffic, that’s the point of a public site.

    That’s like trying to say it’s bad to point to where a book store is so someone can buy from it. Whereas the LLM is stealing from that bookstore and selling it to you in a back alley.

        • @[email protected]
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          89 months ago

          So does any site that quotes the book. Just being trained on a work doesn’t give the model the ability to cite it word for word. For most of the books in this set you wouldn’t even be able to get a single accurate quote out of most models. The models gain the ability to cite passages from training on other sources citing these same passages.

        • Piecemakers
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          39 months ago

          That claim is disingenuous at best, and misinformed otherwise.