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.

  • just another devA
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    89 months 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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      89 months 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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        69 months 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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              49 months 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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                39 months 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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          69 months 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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            9 months 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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              19 months 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.