stopthatgirl7Authors 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.
GibdosI certainly hope that none of these authors have ever read a book before or have been inspired by something written by another author.
ThrowawayOnLemmyThat’s an interesting take, I didn’t know software could be inspired by other people’s works. Here. I thought software just did exactly as it’s instructed to do.
And here I thought software just did exactly as it’s instructed to do.
AI isn’t software. Everything the AI knows is from the books. There is no human instructing the AI what to do. All the human does is build the scaffolding to let the AI learn, everything else is in the data.
Lieutenant LianaHey, computational linguist here who works with large language models. This is the most ridiculous thing I ever read.