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Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI::One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence.

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you can easily fit all of Kings work in a 4gb model.

But, uhhhh, they didn't. They didn't copy everything, word for word, and put it into a model. That's not how AI models work.

[–] sab@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't claim it was.

We can discuss technicalities all day long, but that's so beside the point. Thread OP claimed that creating an LLM based on a copyrighted work is okay, because humans are influenced by other works as well. But a human can't crank out hundreds of Stephen King-like chapters per hour. Or hundreds of Dali-like paintings pretty minute.

If King or Dali had given permission for their works to be used in this way, it might have been a different story, but as it is, AI models are being trained on (and profit from) huge amounts of data that they did not have permission for.

Edit: nevermind, I think trying to discuss AI ethics with you is pointless. Have a nice weekend!

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

But a human can’t crank out hundreds of Stephen King-like chapters per hour. Or hundreds of Dali-like paintings pretty minute.

so?