Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works

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Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

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Quoting someone's book is not "ripping off" the work.

How is it able to quote the book? Magic?

So you're saying that as long as they buy 1 copy of the book, it's all good?

No, I'm not saying that. If she's right and it can spit out any part of her book when asked (and someone else showed that it does that with Harry Potter), it's plagiarism. They are profiting off of her book without compensating her. Which is a form of ripping someone off. I'm not sure what the confusion here is. If I buy someone's book, that doesn't give me the right to put it all online for free.

It's not plagiarism if it says it's her book, lol.

What are your feelings on public libraries? And does it spit out the entire book, or just excerpts?

I don't think you understand what plagiarism is. When you profit off of someone else's work, you're plagiarizing. Libraries do not profit off of anything. OpenAI, however, is a for-profit endeavor.

plagiarizing

This is taking someone's work and passing it off as your own. Did you not do a simple google search when there was some doubt to the definition, like I just did?

You might have gone with the law instead of the dictionary.

Did you read that?

Plagiarism can happen intentionally or unintentionally when a person uses another person's ideas or words without citing the original source. Here are four common forms of plagiarism:

Copying another person's words without using quotation marks or referencing the original source

Copying an author's words without using quotation marks but using accurate footnotes to the original source

Paraphrasing an author's ideas without including a reference to the original source

Rearranging an author's exact words, even if there is a footnote to the original source

Oh no, I plagiarized! lol

Copying another person’s words without using quotation marks or referencing the original source

ChatGPT can do that.

Copying an author’s words without using quotation marks but using accurate footnotes to the original source

ChatGPT can do that.

Paraphrasing an author’s ideas without including a reference to the original source

ChatGPT can do that.

Rearranging an author’s exact words, even if there is a footnote to the original source

ChatGPT can do that.

Can? C'mon kid.

Yes, can. It is capable of doing all those things and, again, if she is correct, will do so if prompted.

I think this is nonsense, but you're saying the issue is that it doesn't use quotes when someone asks it to quote a passage from her book? Is that true?

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