The Big Five publisher made a deal with an unnamed “artificial intelligence technology company” and is allowing authors to opt-in if they want to join the agreement.
  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    6 days ago

    But then they sue the Internet Archive for hosting a library for the betterment of society. Capitalism is a plague.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    22·
    6 days ago

    Owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has done more harm to the world than probably anyone who wasn’t an actual dictator, so unsurprising.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    Who says everything that’s ever been produced and being created right now (including this comment) isn’t just being mass collected and dumped into a LLM right now?

    It’s like pirating digital data like a movie or ebook, everyone is told not to do it but everyone is capable.

    Do you think capitalist, money hungry media companies haven’t already done it.

  • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    6 days ago

    If this is opt-out by default it’s at least not a complete dick move. The hard limit of $2500 compensation for opting in? Definitely a dick move.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      1·
      5 days ago

      It’s still a dick move, because Harper Collins has a huge amount of oligopoly power. Any supposed concession is likely of no real use to any authors who rely on the big companies to get published.