Posted on 09/16/2023 8:35:12 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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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Lately, my online library has had multiple books unavailable to borrow. Now I know why.
Just wait until the judges are AI...hey, would probably be better than the lefty rubber stamps.
The allegations are that copyrighted work is being used by Meta and others to train AI, without permission from copyright holders.
Sounds actionable to me.
It’s bot just “train.”
It’s copy and rearrange the same stuff someone else first wrote.
Go to a chat AI and ask it to write a song in the style of XXXXX (Your favorite artist) it is quite interesting.
That is, It’s NOT just “train.”
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.
It is a bidenAI bot.
It plagiarizes other people’s work and claims credit.
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