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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€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They weren't given data. They were shown data then the company spent tens of millions of dollars on cpu time to do statistical analysis of the data shown.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A computer being shown data is a computer being given data. I don't understand your argument.