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Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI
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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Yeah I know they didn't but at worst the company owes them 30 bucks for the licence. I don't think copyright law gives authors the right to say who can buy their works, so at the absolute worst, the AI company's stole a book.
To be clear I'm not saying that this should be allowed, I'm just saying that under the current legal system I'm not sure they actually committed that much of a crime. Obviously it needs to be updated, but you do that through political reform (and good luck with that because AI is big bucks), not through the courts.
Copyright Law doesn't talk about who can consume the work. ChatGPT's theft is no different to piracy and companies have gotten very pissy about their shit being pirated but when ChatGPT does it (because the piracy is hidden behind its training), it's fine. The individual authors and artists get shafted in the end because their work has been weaponised against them.
What law does talk about it, then?
That would be a worthwhile question if that was the contention.
You seem to be suggesting that training these LLMs is illegal, with things like "ChatGPT's theft" and " the piracy is hidden behind its training".
In order for something to be illegal there has to be a law making it illegal. What law is that?