Paying AIs to Read My Books
5 days ago
- #AI Training
- #Copyright Law
- #Author Influence
- Authors may soon pay AI companies to include their books in AI training to influence AI outputs.
- Anthropic was fined $1.5 billion for unauthorized copying of books, though they claim not to have used them for training.
- AI training on copyrighted material is a legal gray area; fair use depends on how the material was obtained.
- The future may require new intellectual property rights tailored to AI learning, such as a 'Right of Reference.'
- AI training material curation will become crucial, with demand for politically aligned or 'best' answer AIs.
- Inclusion in AI training sets will be a key factor for authors to ensure their work influences AI outputs.
- AI's role as an arbiter of truth makes it essential for authors to have their work included in AI training.
- Writing for AI ingestion will become a skill, with 'AI-friendly' formats enhancing influence.
- An author's legacy may increasingly depend on their work's integration into AI knowledge bases.