The main topic of the article is the backlash against AI companies that use unauthorized creative work to train their models.
Key points:
1. The controversy surrounding Prosecraft, a linguistic analysis site that used scraped data from pirated books without permission.
2. The debate over fair use and copyright infringement in relation to AI projects.
3. The growing concern among writers and artists about the use of generative AI tools to replace human creative work and the push for individual control over how their work is used.
Main topic: The use of copyrighted books to train large language models in generative AI.
Key points:
1. Writers Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta violated copyright laws by using their books to train LLaMA, a large language model.
2. Approximately 170,000 books, including works by Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan, are part of the dataset used to train LLaMA and other generative-AI programs.
3. The use of pirated books in AI training raises concerns about the impact on authors and the control of intellectual property in the digital age.
Generative AI is enabling the creation of fake books that mimic the writing style of established authors, raising concerns regarding copyright infringement and right of publicity issues, and prompting calls for compensation and consent from authors whose works are used to train AI tools.
Meta and other companies have used a data set of pirated ebooks, known as "Books3," to train generative AI systems, leading to lawsuits by authors claiming copyright infringement, as revealed in a deep analysis of the data set.
The Atlantic has revealed that Meta's AI language model was trained using tens of thousands of books without permission, sparking outrage among authors, some of whom found their own works in Meta's database, but the debate surrounding permission versus the transformative nature of art and AI continues.
The book "The Futurist" by author and journalist Peter Rubin is among the thousands of pirated books being used to train generative-AI systems, sparking concerns about the future of human writers and copyright infringement.
Tech companies are facing backlash from authors after it was revealed that almost 200,000 pirated e-books were used to train artificial intelligence systems, with many authors expressing outrage and feeling exploited by the unauthorized use of their work.
Tech companies are using thousands of books, including pirated copies, to train artificial intelligence systems without the permission of authors, leading to copyright infringement concerns and loss of income.
Authors are expressing anger and incredulity over the use of their books to train AI models, leading to the filing of a class-action copyright lawsuit by the Authors Guild and individual authors against OpenAI and Meta, claiming unauthorized and pirated copies were used.
