One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to train artificial intelligence.

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.

  • ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I mean, yeah, duh. Just ask any of them to write a paragraph “in the style of INSERT AUTHOR”.

    If it can, then it was trained on that author. I’m not sure how that’s a problem though.

    • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      1 year ago

      We don’t have the legal framework for this type of thing. So people are going to disagree with how using training data for a commercial AI product should work.

      I imagine Steven King would argue they didn’t have licenses or permission to use his books to train their AI. So he should be compensated or the AI deleted/retrained. He would argue buying a copy of the book only lets it be used for humans to read. Similar to buying a CD doesn’t allow you to put that song in your advert.