Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI

Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.

https://www.themarysue.com/authors-are-furious-after-finding-their-works-on-huge-list-of-books-used-to-train-ai/

Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI

Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.

The Mary Sue
I certainly hope that none of these authors have ever read a book before or have been inspired by something written by another author.
That would be a much better comparison if it was artificial intelligence, but these are just reinforcement learning models. They do not get inspired.

just reinforcement learning models

...like the naturally occuring neural networks are.

The brain does not work the way you think… (I work in the field, bio-informatics). What you call “neural networks” come from an early misunderstanding of how the brain stores information. It’s a LOT more complicated and frankly, barely understood.
so its barely understood, but this definitely is not it. got it.
But you, random stranger on the internet, knows better than the guy that literally works in the field. Got it.
i do? where did i claim that?

It’s a LOT more complicated and frankly, barely understood.

Yet you confidently state that the brain doesn't work the way LLMs do?

Obviously it doesn't work exactly the same way that LLMs do, if only because of the completely different substrates. But when you get to more nebulous concepts like "creativity" and "inspiration" it's not so clear.

people have a definite fear of being defined as machines... not sure why we think were so special..

The part where brain and neural net differ is in the learning via backpropagation, that seem to be done different in the brain, as there is no mechanism to go backwards through the network and jiggle the weights.

That aside, they seem to work very similar once they are trained, as the knowledge they are able to extract from data ends up being basically the same that a human would be able to extract. There is surprisingly little weirdness in AI and a surprising amount of human-like capabilities.