Authors demand credit and compensation from AI companies using their work without permission | OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta have been called out::The letter, published by professional writers’ organization The Authors Guild, is addressed to the bosses of OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI, IBM, and Microsoft. It calls out…
I suspect the problem is that AI copies whole sentences that were originally published by authors - not that it just “learns” from it.
A while back I tried to get ChatGPT to recite the text of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to me, as a test of just how much copyrighted text it’s willing to recite.
It got partway through the first sentence before freezing up, presumably due to a sensitivity to copyright.
So I suspect that at least OpenAI are taking significant steps already to prevent their systems from reciting copyrighted text verbatim.