Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Technology@beehaw.org – 217 points –
Sarah Silverman Sues ChatGPT Creator for Copyright Infringement
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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.

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.

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.