Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.

  • Gibdos@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I certainly hope that none of these authors have ever read a book before or have been inspired by something written by another author.

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      1 year ago

      Are you saying the writers of these programs have read all these books, and were inspired by them so much they wrote millions of books? And all this software is doing is outputting the result of someone being inspired by other books?

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Clearly not. He’s saying that other authors have done the same as the software does. The software creators implemented the same principle into their llm. You are being daft on purpose.

    • adriaan@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      That would be a much better comparison if it was artificial intelligence, but these are just reinforcement learning models. They do not get inspired.

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        1 year ago

        just reinforcement learning models

        …like the naturally occuring neural networks are.

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          1 year ago

          The brain does not work the way you think… (I work in the field, bio-informatics). What you call “neural networks” come from an early misunderstanding of how the brain stores information. It’s a LOT more complicated and frankly, barely understood.

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            1 year ago

            It’s a LOT more complicated and frankly, barely understood.

            Yet you confidently state that the brain doesn’t work the way LLMs do?

            Obviously it doesn’t work exactly the same way that LLMs do, if only because of the completely different substrates. But when you get to more nebulous concepts like “creativity” and “inspiration” it’s not so clear.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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          1 year ago

          Tell you what, you get a landmark legal decision classifying LLM as people and then we’ll talk.

          Until then it’s software being fed content in a way not permitted by its license i.e. the makers of that software committing copyright infringement.