Here's an idea, legally force companies like OpenAI to rely on opt-in data, rather then build their entire company on stealing massive amounts of data. That includes requiring to retrain from scratch. Sam Altman was crying for regulations for scary AI, right?

This is no different than every other capitalist enterprise. The whole system works on taking a public resource, claiming private ownership of it, and then selling it back to the public for profit.

First it was farmland, then coal and minerals, oil, seafood, and now ideas. Its how the system works and is the whole reason people have been trying to stop it for the past 150 years.

The people making the laws are there because they and/or their parents and/or grandparents did the exact same thing. As despicable and corrupt as it is you won't change it by complaining and no-one is going to make a law to stop it.

I certainly hope that none of these authors have ever read a book before or have been inspired by something written by another author.

I hope they can at least get compensated.

Ok so it’s been stealing art now it’s coming for authors. At what point do we hold the coalition who started this shit culpable for numerous accounts of plagiarism?

Curious if the AI company actually bought those books or if they just came across them by pirating.

There's an idea by Barath Raghavan about an AI dividend that companies pay each netizen a share for the data they use to train these models.

I am into this idea if companies can't even do a simple opt-in mechanism.