aztecladyAug 7, 2023

PSA: ICYMI, some technobro grabbed 25K books and fed them to an AI to do 'literary analysis' and when called out did the faux, "but it's a public service, you should be honored" then backtracking with, "email me if you want me to pull your book" and now escalating to, "I'm taking the whole site down because you are all ungrateful idiots" (paraphrasing)

See thread:
https://twitter.com/QueenOfRats/status/1688606310743552002

He tried La Nora!

@romancelandia
#IndieAuthors #Prosecraft

This is good advice:
https://mastodon.social/@Celeste_pewter/110850216180049461

Alex Brown 🐀 (they/them) on Twitter

“I know copyright law is complicated, but "email me to have your stolen work removed from our monetized site" will not protect you in court. That's not how this works. Ask anyone who remembers Napster. Hell, ask a single archivist.”

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Show threadHen Gymro Heb WladAug 8, 2023

@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia I don't understand why he had to steal people's work. Project Gutenberg has over 70,000 texts that are out of copyright, from the Bible to Dickens.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

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Show threadazteclady

@hengymrohebwlad
#Prosecraft did the harvesting, purportedly for "literary analysis"; meanwhile, those texts were used to "train" an AI service (shaxpir) to produce writing "in the style of your favorite author".

That's why him taking prosecraft offline doesn't do much for the intellectual property theft if he still has the data.

It's in the thread.

@romancelandia

Aug 8, 2023 at 8:12amWeb