• world_hopper@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    A lot of these comments are missing a large point which is that, if the claim is true, the books are being pirated and then effectively used for a commercial application.

    So the authors are losing money through this process and did not give their permission for their work to be used in a commercial way.

    The decision of this case will be wildly important for the development of AI.

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      1 year ago

      If they have access to some library with those books they are ok.

      I doubt they just used pirated book to train their AI and than publishing it without having non pirated paper trail, it is not that hard.

      But let’s see.

      The only a problem here is how have they accessed the books, they don’t share copyrighted material to others. But I don’t think anyone should be held guilty for reading a book, so I hold the same stance for AI.

      If you don’t want people to read your book, just don’t publish it.

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        1 year ago

        Do you know what library genesis and z-library are?? They are literally libraries of pirated materials.

        And yeah they can read the book, but shouldn’t be able to use its content in a commercial way (e.g. make money) off of its contents without the permission of the writer/copyright holder.