Michelle Franklin: Hello! In case no one told you, Harper Collins is demanding that their staff train AI with their authors' works without author consent. But guess what? They aren't the only publisher doing this. I know of at least two more!

Hello! In case no one told you, Harper Collins is demanding that their staff train AI with their authors' works without author consent. But guess what? They aren't the only publisher doing this. I know of at least two more!

For those who are saying, "Isn't OpenAI at court for stealing work?" Yep, and yet, here we are www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

OpenAI: We Can't be Rich Unless You Let Us Stealwww.dailykos.com OpenAI has informed the world that it is impossible to train large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT without copyrighted material. � Thus, the taking of copyrighted material without recompense to ...

And then bsky.app/profile/phil...

OpenAI is reportedly in talks with CNN, Fox Corp. and Time to license their work

OpenAI in Talks With CNN, Fox and Time to License Contentwww.bloomberg.com OpenAI is in talks with CNN, Fox Corp. and Time to license their work, according to people familiar with the matter, in a growing effort to secure access to news content to build out its artificial in...

the absolute fucking audacity to license shit they stole

And just in case anyone needs more proof of major publications switching to AI use: www.theguardian.com/media/2023/j...

I will say again: use offline writing tools. Remove Grammarly from your phone, don't use Google Docs for important documents or your creative work, and do not publish text on Meta. www.vox.com/technology/2...

The tricky truth about how generative AI uses your datawww.vox.com AI systems train on your data. What can you do about it?

as someone who used a computer for years without being connected to any kind of network...i have never been comfortable with online tools. they feel slow and clunky compared to an app running entirely locally. also wtf is happening with my work on the other end?

My kid needs to use grammarly to write. What are the options?

They can use Word. Grammarly is terrible.

I haven't used word in long enough to know whether it has the tools he needs but I'll have a look.

Welp, yet another reason I'm happy to have chosen self publishing

It's the poor road but the peaceful one.

Hell, from what I've heard and read, the other road isn't much less poor

True that.

Same

Just what I was thinking.

Also need an industry label for readers. If the book wasn’t written by a human being who had at least one near-miss deadline or “why the heck did I write this??” meltdown, it’s not worth the read.

The obscene speed with which media and publishing companies are trampling each other to sell their content for pennies on the dollar of what is worth to the AI companies has actually surprised me.

I thought it would be more gradual than this considering most extrapolation AIs are about as intelligent as a 3rd grader. I suppose the problem is that most of these CEOs also have a similar level of intelligence.

This stampede feels very “Pets.com” and “FTX is the future!” to me….

Disgusting 2.0

if you did it on Amazon i’m sure they feed the beast too

Possibly, but Amazon requires new authors to send in their manuscripts and sign a waver saying there was no AI used for the text. Who knows if this actually does anything.

That waver is actually important for enhancing „AI“. If you feed it with texts written by AI it will have detrimental effects on the quality of its results. 🥴

At any rate, saying you didn’t use AI says nothing about whether Amazon will feed it to AI. I’m sure they wouldn’t think twice about it

if I worked there, I’d just upload lorem ipsum junk to see what happens

Intolerance

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I'm beginning to sense why publishers would go after the Internet Archive since you could catch them red handed doing this otherwise. Heaps of lawsuits.

You just search Open AI phrases that it spits out and it's like "Oh it's right here!"

Is it just me or is the text in the apparent message exchange in the OP very AI-esque? It waffles around and makes the same point several times without quite making the point. Is this skynet gaining independent agency??

It's someone prevaricating for the sake of NDAs.

Wonderful. I wonder if this is a plagiarism detection tool, or perhaps an early stage editor/proofreading attempt? I'm grasping for straws here, surely there's no intention for publishers to use actual MS to generate artificial literature...

Infinite content for no money? That’s the intention. They don’t care if it’s shit because the business side of these companies don’t know what’s good or not anyway. They just see opportunities to cut costs

Look forward to Harry Potter 8 - 15 for a minimal fee to JK Rowling and absolutely nobody else

I do hope if this is even attempted there will simply be a class action for unforeseen misuse of an original work. It's not dissimilar to the writers strike in CA, just... obviously the lesson hasn't been learned.

Insidious.

How can we find out which publishers are doing this?

Assume they all are and have it written into your contract that your work cannot be used for AI.

Well, too late for me 🤪 But I will have to go back and read it and see what it says. And here I was thinking the publishers might do something to protect their works from being ingested into AIs!

We hoped. We were disappointed. Don't look up how many editors were let go or told to use AI for their work in 2023. 🙂

🙃

Yep 😬

If we can all just commission ai books why would we buy books from the big 5 🤪 (Worst. TIMELINE. )

Big 4 now.

Ugh I forgot

🥲 It sucks.

Sadly, this is becoming an annoying trend in other mediums. Some companies trying to use VA's voices w/o permission, using someone's likeness in film even when they're deceased, art being reproduced on the basis of other peoples' work...There has to be measures to stem this from going out of control

We’re gonna need you to train your replacement. It’s a hologram of you scraping impressions for your psychometric profile. We wish you success in your future endeavors.

Authors are the start. Editors will be next. Then boards will start wondering why they keep these expensive CEOs around

Editors came last year. See my post on how my publisher hired an 'editor' only to find out it was a rando using AI tools.

Boards will never wonder this. The strategy is to generate profit from no/low paid workers and shuffle this money around between members of an executive class. They could replace business decision-making with AI now but they won't; that would be economic suicide rather than economic serial murder.

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