The AI crookedness goes on.
Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI
Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.
[the article is mostly behind a paywall but maybe someone knows a work around. This is an important subject to me and all other professional and aspiring writers.]
By Alex Reisner
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/
#Stephenking #writers #writing
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