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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the data has to be paid for, openAI will gladly do it with a smile on their face. It guarantees them a monopoly and ownership of the economy.

Paying more but having no competition except google is a good deal for them.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Eh, the issue is lots of people wouldn't be willing to sell tho.

Like, you think an author wants the chatbot to read their collected works and use that? Regardless of if it's quoting full texts or "creating" text in their style.

No author is going to want that.

And if it's up to publishers, they likely won't either. Why take one small payday if that could potentially lead to loss of sales a few years down the row.

It's not like the people making the chatbits just need to buy a retail copy of the text to be in the legal clear.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The publisher's will absolutely sell imo. They just publish, the book will be worth the same with or without the help of AI to write it.

I guess there is a possibility that people start replacing bought books with personalized book llm outputs but that strikes me as unlikely.