Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training

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https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/microsoft-sued-by-authors-over-use-books-ai-training-2025-06-25/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link

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Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Their lawsuit, filed in New York federal court

Welp… that’s going nowhere.

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IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The writers alleged in the complaint that Microsoft used a collection of nearly 200,000 pirated books to train Megatron, an algorithm that gives text responses to user prompts.

Which Megatron are we referring to?

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Or This Image

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Paywalled.

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