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Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: "There is nothing fair about this" (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's not really about being scared. It's about having their works used commercially without a license to do so. OpenAI is selling a tool that can "write in the style of George RR Martin", trained on his works, and yet he wasn't asked or paid for that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    They're obviously scared they're not gonna get payed for nothing anymore. And they are scared they will be 100% replaceable. I don't think the last part is reasonable.

    Imo they should pay authors who contribute in the datasets. But besides that there shouldn't be any copyright on writing/drawing styles whatsoever.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Agreed, the output of the model isn't really the issue (other than providing evidence that those works are in the dataset), the inputs are. I would also like to see groups like wikipedia get something back from this too, OpenAI abused a ton of community funded resources and expects to sell that shit back to us as GPT subs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I see your point. If you're interested in the topic, Jaron Lanier published a book about micro-payments for datasets in 2013. It's an interesting read.

    If you're too lazy you can also ask ChatGPT for a summary of the main points tho ;)

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