John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement::John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R
This probably won’t be successful. Enough time has passed that GRRM’s books moved into the public domain while we were waiting for Winds of Winter
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It would probably come up with something nonsensical and stupid like Dani goes nuts and destroys King’s Landing and Tyrion talks about how Bran has the most interesting story of all and should be king
Are we just going to keep posting this changing which famous author is listed?
Probably, but it needs to happen. Even this stupid comment belongs to me. If you respond, that belongs to you.
I’m classically trained in machine learning. There’s not much different from what we did when I first started my career and now except for the quantity of data and the computing power that gpus have gotten us.
Hal 9000 from 1968 worked on a neural network. I’ve had to explain that a number of times.
Well if Georgy-boy would finish a book, maybe his job wouldn’t be on the line to a robot?
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How are people not seeing the other side of this.
AI gives regular people access to things in society that traditionally have been tools of the upper crust. Lower income families could use AI to develop meal planners, financial planners and even access simple medical and legal advice. It gives regular folk a pocket assistant.
I would hate to take these tools away from us because GRRM might not get his $5 because his work was 7 of the 1.3 million books among other things ingested.
AI isn’t reproducing these peoples works. It is creating entirely knew things. Ingestion of information should be a right that is protected
Except the market. If the AI generated shit (and it does) then people won’t buy it
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Are you saying peoples intellectual property should be free range,
This is going to keep happening until one side wins (I’m with the Authors 100% here)
AI is a complete legal gray area, and will continue to be until precedent is set. Nobody has found what is and isn’t allowed under copyright law yet, and unfortunately I’m pretty sure the judges ruling on this aren’t going to be completely informed
It’s actually not that hard to figure out. It’s not the same thing, but here’s an article by Kit Walsh, who’s a senior staff attorney at the EFF explains how image generators work within the law. The two aren’t exactly the same, but you can see how the concepts would apply. The EFF is a digital rights group who most recently won a historic case: border guards now need a warrant to search your phone.
I am with the authors more like 80% here.
Authors read each others works and are influenced by them and we don’t expect them to go back and buy special licenses for each work that might have influenced their current novels. Art as much as any field stands on the shoulders of mice and giants alike. Pretending that AI language models shouldn’t “read” as many novels as possible to assist their own growth is a preposterous idea.
Should they have to buy a copy of the book like everyone else? Sure. Should they get bent over without lube by publishing companies? Well that is a bit more complex.
In my opinion there is no “right” answer right now. We as a society need to decide what we are okay with.
Furthermore, there are a lot of really good books out there that would be truly great “except”. Except what? That depends. Maybe it has annoying side characters, or maybe it is littered with plot holes, maybe there are outdated social norms that distract from the real point of the book, or maybe the fact that not one character in the book looks or talks like you and your friends.
It would be wonderful if we could use AI to adjust or even personalize those books.
Can you imagine a Harry Potter that isn’t just translated into other languages, but has each of the characters localized as well. Neither Harry Potter being British nor being male is fundamental to the story. There is no reason the French, Aria Potter couldn’t save the world through the power of her mother’s love, and with the help of her friends. Well except the fact that it would likely make JKR lose her mind, since she doesn’t even tolerate fan fiction.
Is it possible to make these changes now, sure? It just isn’t really practical for even really big name authors, much someone who only sells a few thousand copies of each book.
