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Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

  • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sorry about the late reply-- I try my best to stay mostly disconnected from the internet on the weekends.

    Literally all intellectual property law concerns how intellectual property may or may not be used and licensed.

    True, but no IP law gives the IP holder the power you’re trying to give them. That is what I’m saying. It would need the law to be changed. There is no aspect of IP law that says that you aren’t allowed to use the text to train anyone, let alone a LLM.

    The training data is what gives the LLM value in the problematic situations so, it is very clear that the material is a key component in the business plan and commercial use.

    This does not matter. If I read a book on Six Sigma business practices and then use that knowledge to better structure my business to increase my profits, I don’t owe the author of the book anything from that. You’re, again, trying very hard to give away your own rights in order to stick it to LLMs. I’m positive IP rights holder would love this new right you want to give them. Perhaps reconsider the implications, though. Simply making money off of the information found in a book does not give the author rights to that money.

    Let me ask you this. If you have a epub of a book on your computer and you select it and press Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V-- have you violated copyright laws? You’ve made a copy, after all.