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Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works (www.cnn.com)
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Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The issue under discussion is whether or not LLM companies should pay royalties on the training data, not the personhood of hypothetical future AGIs.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why should they pay royalties for letting a robot read something that they wouldn't owe if a person read it?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

It's not reading. It's word-probability analysis.