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The Atlantic Explores How AI Tools Pirate Books
Alex Reisner writes the following in “The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem” for The Atlantic:To show the kind of work that has been used by Meta and OpenAI, I accessed a snapshot of [piracy site] LibGen’s metadata—revealing the contents of the library without downloading or distributing the books or research papers themselves—and used it to create an interactive database that you can search. … Meta and OpenAI have both argued in court that it’s ‘fair use’ to train their generative-AI models on copyrighted work without a license, because LLMs ‘transform’ the original material into new work. … All of this certainly makes knowledge and literature more accessible, but it relies entirely on the people who create that knowledge and literature in the first place—that labor that takes time, expertise, and often money. For more information, read the article (registration required).
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