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Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI
(www.themarysue.com)
Does this fall under fair-use part of copyright?
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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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.
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Everyone’s a fan of fair use until it’s their work that is transformed.
Either we make all art a common freely licensed good and pay artists a flat solidarity wage to feed them, or we don't do that and keep it how it is, but having a loophole exception for some AI corporations is not the way to go.
Absolutely agree