Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI
Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI
One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence.
By Stephen King
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Youre right, but this is Steven King, when is he not putting out a new book?
Also hes not struggling for attention, he's probably Americas most famous author. He speaks out about stuff all the time I dont think its fair to write off his opinion on this being solely a publicity stunt.
King didn't even plug the book in the article.
Ah darn you’re probably right
I've read some of his books too.
Just as long as you don't in any way absorb the information into your brain it's okay.
I understand what authors are trying to say, but legally I don't quite get how they can say that an AI is doing anything other than reading the books, which obviously they're allowed to do.
It is not as if they are making the books publicly available for free, and it's not as if writing in the style of another author is illegal, so I'm not quite sure what law has been broken here.
It's baffling to me seeing comments like this as if the 'AI' is some natural intelligence just hanging out going around reading books it's interested in for the hell of it.. No. These are software companies illegally using artists works (which we require licensing for commercial use) to develop a commercial, profit generating product. Whatever the potential outputs of the AI are is irrelevant when the sources used to train it were obtained illegally.
LLMs have been caught plagiarising works, by the simple nature of how they function. They predict the next word based on an assumed context of the previous words, they're very good at constructing sentences but often the issue is "where is it getting its information from?" Authors never consented to their works being fed into an optimisation algorithm and neither did artists when DALL E was created.
For authors, you buy the book and thus the author is paid but that's not what happened with ChatGPT.
You have, LLMs don’t read because they aren’t intelligent or alive. They aren’t comparable to humans.
Are you sure?
And I don’t mean the sarcastically or snidely.
I’ve met a fair share of people who seems to be nothing more than an LLM.
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Then don't dare to generate any tokens based on them!
Ah fuck, what do I do with my mountains of Stephen King fanfiction now?!
Not any Tolkiens neither.
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Thank you!
Is that why I keep getting advised to use my telepathy to solve my problems?