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Writers Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang Sue Meta & OpenAI — Class-Action Copyright Claim on Thousands of Books
breitbart ^ | 09/16/23 | David Ng

Posted on 09/16/2023 8:35:12 PM PDT by chief lee runamok

Michael Chabon attends the premiere of CBS All Access'
A group of writers headed by celebrated novelist Michael Chabon and Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang are suing Facebook parent Meta as well as ChatGPT maker OpenAI, alleging in two separate suits that their artificial intelligence platforms engaged in copyright violations with tens of thousands of books.

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zuckerberg likely didn't see this one coming.

Lately, my online library has had multiple books unavailable to borrow. Now I know why.

1 posted on 09/16/2023 8:35:12 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: chief lee runamok

Just wait until the judges are AI...hey, would probably be better than the lefty rubber stamps.


2 posted on 09/16/2023 8:44:22 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: chief lee runamok

The allegations are that copyrighted work is being used by Meta and others to train AI, without permission from copyright holders.


3 posted on 09/16/2023 9:07:37 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr

Sounds actionable to me.


4 posted on 09/16/2023 9:35:18 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: jimtorr

It’s bot just “train.”

It’s copy and rearrange the same stuff someone else first wrote.


5 posted on 09/16/2023 9:46:36 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: jimtorr

Go to a chat AI and ask it to write a song in the style of XXXXX (Your favorite artist) it is quite interesting.


6 posted on 09/16/2023 9:47:09 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: ConservativeMind

That is, It’s NOT just “train.”


7 posted on 09/16/2023 9:47:51 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: chief lee runamok

Not much of a claim under US law: disassembling the works to refine an algorithm would constitute a new work, like making an index, which is owned by the creator not the original author under US law.


8 posted on 09/17/2023 9:57:31 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: ConservativeMind

It is a bidenAI bot.
It plagiarizes other people’s work and claims credit.


9 posted on 09/17/2023 8:17:24 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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