Comment on Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this”
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoSorry mate this is just daft.
Did you read the article? Most of it is about derivative works.
LLMs fuel AI tools that “can spit out derivative works: material that is based on, mimics, summarizes, or paraphrases” their works, allegedly turning their works into “engines of” authors’ “own destruction” by harming the book market for them.
They’re trying to claim that they have been financially harmed by the unauthorised use of their work.
Even if LLMs are separate iterations you could train multiple LLMs with one copy of the book - the library is not loaning multiple copies simultaneously.
livus@kbin.social 1 year ago
@DogMuffins
Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression they don't yet have a derivative work that's close enough to clain plagiarism. Without that, they don't have a leg to stand on.
This is the only part I think could potentially hold water:
As for libraries:
I'm not sure why you're saying that.
With Wheelers' and other big ebook platforms the business model completely depends on the concept of multiple copies. This isn't my opinion, it's just a fact about how they bill libraries.
Even with physical copies libraries sometimes buy several (and in my country publishers get special compensation based on how many copies are in public libraries per year)