Ooof, Y'ALL! If you thought the WGA strike was ugly... authors have a HUGE library of material to draw from to "teach" AI.
What's your big takeaway from this article and movement?
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-george-rr-m...
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If you listen to John August & Craig Mazin's podcast, they brought up a great point about AI with the new deal. Turns out the studios are also concerned about AI because of data scraping and potential copyright infringements which they would be liable for. This was a surprise to the WGA who assumed the studios would want to exploit AI as much as possible, but they have very real and legitimate legal concerns, which was good for the two sides finding some agreement!
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I hope A.I. doesn't turn out to be Pandora's Box. This will be messy for sure.
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Here's the clue: “numerous AI-generated books that have been posted on Amazon that attempt to pass themselves off as human-generated and seek to profit off a human author’s hard-earned reputation.”
If the point is to teach AI to mimic the author's writing style and duplicate it then by all means, let slip the dogs of war.
The article says, "According to the Authors Guild-led lawsuit, the books OpenAI used to train ChatGPT 'were downloaded from pirate ebook repositories and then copied into the fabric of GPT 3.5 and GPT 4, which power ChatGPT and thousands of applications and enterprise uses — from which OpenAI expects to earn many billions.'" That's money (some of it) that won't go to authors and their families if authors don't stand up to AI, @Karen "Kay" Ross. I think it's great that the Authors Guild and top authors like George R.R. Martin are standing up to AI. Just like the WGA stood up and the SAG-AFTRA is standing up.