One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence.

By Stephen King

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    These are software companies illegally using artists works

    There is nothing illegal about what they’re doing. You may want it to be illegal, but it’s not illegal until laws are actually passed to make it illegal. Things are not illegal by default.

    Copyright only prevents copying works. Not analyzing them. The results of the analysis are not the same as the original work.

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      It is illegal. As an artist, if another individual or company wants to use my work for their own commercial purposes in any way, even if just to ‘analyze’ (since the analysis is part of their private commercial product), they still need to pay for a license to do so. Otherwise it’s an unauthorized use and theft. Copyright doesn’t even play into it at that point, and would be a separate issue.

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        No, it’s not. Something that is merely in the style of something else is not a derivative work. If that were the case there’d be lawsuits everywhere.

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          LLMs regurgitate their training set. This has been proven many times. In fact from what I’ve seen LLMs are either regurgitating or hallucinating.

          there’d be lawsuits everywhere

          Early days.