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Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

  • MelllvarEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The issue under discussion is whether or not LLM companies should pay royalties on the training data, not the personhood of hypothetical future AGIs.

    • planish@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Why should they pay royalties for letting a robot read something that they wouldn’t owe if a person read it?

      • MelllvarEnglish
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        11 months ago

        It’s not reading. It’s word-probability analysis.