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Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.

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[–] pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I hope they can at least get compensated.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So where can I check to see if my book was used? I published a book.

[–] threadloose@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

The database is here. You'll have to sign up for a free trial if you're not a subscriber to The Atlantic already. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/

[–] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

they were compensated when the company using the book, purchased the book. you can't tell me what to do with the words written in the book once I've purchased it. nor do you own the ideas or things I come up with as a result of your words in your book. of course this argument only holds up if they purchased the book. if it was "stolen" then they are entitled to the $24.95 their book costs.

[–] pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Good point. I guess this aspect is much different from the AI Art scene, where the producers of the dataset are usually not compensated for their drawings.