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.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    But you can easily fit all of Kings work in a 4gb model.

    But, uhhhh, they didn’t. They didn’t copy everything, word for word, and put it into a model. That’s not how AI models work.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t claim it was.

      We can discuss technicalities all day long, but that’s so beside the point. Thread OP claimed that creating an LLM based on a copyrighted work is okay, because humans are influenced by other works as well. But a human can’t crank out hundreds of Stephen King-like chapters per hour. Or hundreds of Dali-like paintings pretty minute.

      If King or Dali had given permission for their works to be used in this way, it might have been a different story, but as it is, AI models are being trained on (and profit from) huge amounts of data that they did not have permission for.

      Edit: nevermind, I think trying to discuss AI ethics with you is pointless. Have a nice weekend!

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        1 year ago

        Thread OP here.

        Creating an AI that incorporates copyrighted work is indeed OK in my opinion, but I would view fine tuning much more critically. A commercial AI that can accurately reproduce large parts of Kings work would be problematic in my opinion. This is something I think we both agree on.

        But my point is that they can’t. His works make up a minuscule fraction of the training set. An AI can not pump out hundreds of Stephen King-like chapters per hour. The same way Stephen King can not write in the style of xzy, only crudely approximate it. So in my opinion it’s a non issue ^^for at least a few more years until AI achieves superhuman performance.^^