John Wilker 👨🏽💻Neat tactic.
Sad to see the UK gov’t fucking over creators.
#writers #books #publishing
wilander@jwilker Neat trick indeed.
Have you written about your views on this topic? It's a hard one. LLMs are obviously really useful. And it's unlikely that the world would retract existing models. So what do we do? Each book is a very small piece of the training data so some kind of royalty would be very small.
@wilander I haven't. Not in any one place at least. I view it as using the bumpers in bowling. I think most people use it as a crutch.
We're definitely stuck with it, but I don't see any value it adds to my creative work, so haven't used it. I enjoy research. I enjoy writing. I don't need a LLM to do those things for me.
For me it's less the $ amount and more the principle. Those companies had the money and means and chose piracy. I would have licensed my work, but wasn't ask. I was robbed.