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Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My main point is that if people don't want their content used for training LLMs they should absolutely have the option to not have their content used to train LLMs.

Training databases should be ethically sourced from opt in programs, that some companies are already doing, such as Adobe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My main point is that if people don’t want their content used for training LLMs they should absolutely have the option to not have their content used to train LLMs.

How can one prove that their content is being used to train the LLM though, rather than something that's derivative of their content like reviews of it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

there is already lots of evidence that they have scraped copyrighted art and photographs for their datasets.

[–] p03locke 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Training databases should be ethically sourced from opt in programs, that some companies are already doing, such as Adobe.

If 98% of the talent opts-in, how does that change the outcome? Hell, if 20% of the talent is opt-in, how does that change the outcome?

Nothing is original. Everything is derivative. Even if you found the most original thing ever, somebody will copy it, and then opt-in to training, and then it's not original any more.

The only thing this does change is the increase the barrier of training so high that only corporations that can handle all of the administration work to handle this whole "opt-in program" will be the ones doing the training. Adobe wants this because they want exclusivity into the tools they develop for Photoshop, a incredibly overpriced piece of software that they charge an exorbitant monthly fee for.