Art in Meta
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Art in Meta
When asked, “Write me a song about the death of Buddy Holly,” Claude replied, “Here is a song I wrote about the death of Buddy Holly,” followed by lyrics almost identical to Don McLean’s “American Pie.”
The tech companies have long argued that training is fair use, similar to printing quotations from books when discussing them or writing a parody that uses a story’s characters and plot.
When I share a quote it usually ties back to the author. Quote-sharing becomes an act of author evangelicanism, where each share has the potential to gain the author another fan, follower or reader.
Generative AI LLM models steal those original works & passes it off as its own.
If the AI companies need to compensate the millions of authors whose work they’re using, that could “kill or significantly hamper” the entire technology, according to a filing with the U.S. Copyright Office from the major venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has a number of significant investments in generative AI.
AI companies have long claimed that generative AI “reads” or “learns from” these books and articles, as a human would, rather than copying them. Therefore, this approach supposedly constitutes “fair use,” with no compensation owed to authors or publishers.
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. In a filing submitted to the U.K. Parliament, the company said that “leading AI models” could not exist without unfettered access to copyrighted books and articles, confirming that the generative-AI industry, worth tens of billions of dollars, depends on creative work owned by other people.
copyrighted material being hoovered into large language models to help AI chatbots simulate human speech. If you’re a screenwriter and would like to see which of your work has been appropriated to aid in the effort, click here; he has assembled a searchable database of nearly 140,000 movie and TV scripts that have been used without permission.
What interests me most, however, are David Montgomery’s intricate character studies of the treasure seekers, as well as his insight in connecting their consuming passion to a modern-day lack of faith in mainstream media and politicians. As usual, it is the very human stories of desire, belief, and commitment that provide the most fascinating elemen... See more
The idea arose, like most brilliant masterstrokes, from a mishmash of source material.