Comment by Legend2440
7 days ago
AI companies are building the knowledge from the books into their models, which they offer for sale to the general public.
Far more people will use the model than would ever have read the book.
7 days ago
AI companies are building the knowledge from the books into their models, which they offer for sale to the general public.
Far more people will use the model than would ever have read the book.
They're not reproducing the information verbatim and with the ability to definitively reference its source. Moreover, not all AI companies are going to get the same books and therefore the same training set, and as companies go bankrupt, training sets are changed, and models abandoned, that information might disappear entirely.
It's not at all the same thing as still having the books themselves available somewhere.
On the other hand, the book can only be in one place and read by one person at a time.
People may not even know the book exists or that it contains the information they want. Obtaining access to a copy may be very difficult, even if it is not particularly rare. The AI is much more accessible.
Then find a way to make them digitally available, verbatim, like Google Books attempted to do. I'm sure with the power that AI companies have they can have legislation amended to make it happen.
You're defending the indefensible here.
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