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.

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.

  • lloram239@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And here I thought software just did exactly as it’s instructed to do.

    AI isn’t software. Everything the AI knows is from the books. There is no human instructing the AI what to do. All the human does is build the scaffolding to let the AI learn, everything else is in the data.

    • LtLiana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      Hey, computational linguist here who works with large language models. This is the most ridiculous thing I ever read.