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Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI (www.themarysue.com)
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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.

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[โ€“] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious if the AI company actually bought those books or if they just came across them by pirating.

[โ€“] threadloose@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, they're 100% pirated. Sorry this isn't open, but the preview should give you enough information. The database is available elsewhere, IIRC. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/