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Charlie Stross – On the non-use of AI in my writing process
a month ago
- The author does not use generative LLMs in their work or personal life, viewing them as toys sold by grifters rather than genuine tools.
- The author has a long history of award-winning fiction published before OpenAI's founding, demonstrating no need for AI to write.
- The author is a party to a class action lawsuit against Anthropic AI for pirating ebooks to train their LLMs.
- LLMs are trained on stolen copyrighted material and their business model is compared to burglars reselling stolen goods.
- The author argues LLMs are not sentient; they are stochastic word-association mechanisms lacking embodiment or self-model.
- Some caveats: the author sees value in local, non-cloud AI tools for statistical analysis and editing support, but not as a substitute for human creativity.
Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI (2023)
2 months ago
- Generative AI systems like ChatGPT are trained on vast amounts of text, including pirated books, without public transparency.
- The Books3 dataset, containing over 170,000 copyrighted books (e.g., by Stephen King, Zadie Smith), was used to train Meta's LLaMA, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J.
- Meta and other companies face lawsuits for copyright infringement, claiming fair use, but the unauthorized source of the books may weaken that defense.
- The dataset was created by developer Shawn Presser to democratize AI training, but it relies on pirated content from Bibliotik and other sources.
- The article highlights a clash between open-source culture, which prioritizes free access, and the need for copyright protection to support authors' livelihoods.
Copyright Scammers Weaponized Meta's Rights Manager with Backdating Exploit
2 months ago
- Meta’s Rights Manager tool on Facebook and Instagram detects and removes copyright-infringing content, but has been exploited by scammers using the 'Edit Post' feature to backdate stolen content and claim ownership.
- In India, lawsuits from creators like Pushkar Raj Thakur and Neeraj Joshi allege that scammers use Rights Manager to monetize stolen videos and issue false copyright strikes, while creators are denied access to the tool.
- A third case (Nitin Joshi) challenges India’s IT Rules and calls for a Special Investigation Team to probe an organized extortion racket involving bogus copyright strikes through bot accounts.
- Delhi High Court orders Meta to preserve account data and hand over IP logs in one case, while another case demands Meta add safeguards like KYC checks and metadata verification to Rights Manager.
- Meta has not publicly addressed the loophole, and its most recent copyright transparency report is over two years old, raising concerns about transparency.

copyright infringement

Charlie Stross – On the non-use of AI in my writing process

Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI (2023)

Copyright Scammers Weaponized Meta's Rights Manager with Backdating Exploit