Following lawsuits from the @nytimes and fiction writers like George RR Martin, OpenAI & Microsoft are facing a new class action lawsuit from non-fiction book authors for training their AI models on books without permission.
The question for generative AI is if this will end like Napster or Google Books?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/05/microsoft-openai-sued-over-copyright-infringement-by-authors.html
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@carnage4life @nytimes Or like neither, since you never needed permission or special licensing to read people's works before.
