Comment on Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this”
knitwitt@lemmy.world 1 year agoI imagine that the easiest way to acquire specific training data for a LLM is to download EBooks from amazon. If a university professor pirates a textbook and then uses extracts from various pages in their lecture slides, the cost of the crime would be the cost of a single textbook. In the case of a novel, GRRM should be entitled to the cost of a set of Ice & Fire if they could prove that the original training material was illegaly pirated instead of legally purchased.
habanhero@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’m not sure your assessment of the “cost of damages” is really accurate but again, that’s not the point.
The point of the lawsuit is about control. If the authors succeed in setting precedent that they should control the use of their work in AI training, then they can easily negotiate the terms with AI tech companies for much more money.
The point is not one-time compensation, it’s about the control in the future.