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.

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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      10 months ago

      Fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work.

      I don’t see why it should.

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        The creation of the AI model is transformative. The AI’s model does not contain a literal copy of the copyrighted work.

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          No, but the training data does contain a copy. And making a model is not criticising, commenting upon, or creating a parody of it.

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            That list is not exclusive, it’s just a list of examples of fair use.

            The training data is not distributed with the AI model.

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              it’s just a list of examples of fair use.

              Yes, it’s a list of quite similar ways of commenting upon a work. Please explain how training an LLM is like any of those things, and thus, how Fair use would apply.

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                It’s not. The humans that trained it (assumably) purchased the material used to train it. What’s the problem?

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                  The use of the material to create a commercial product as well as the reality being that the humans training it never buy the data on an individual level.