Is it a copyright problem or a capitalist problem or why do we only get nerfed dumb chatbots?
Would be interesting to really try hard and create a llm that can write novels in the style of an author. And skip the chat functionality!
Would be interesting to really try hard and create a llm that can write novels in the style of an author. And skip the chat functionality!
However, it's inevitable.
Most AI companies try to train their bots on vast amounts of different data, and I suspect it's very difficult for that to result in very creative writing when you're training on works of fiction, as well as cooking recipes, Reddit comments and technical documentation.
Although my personal theory would be that LLMs are just writing how someone without an ego or firsthand knowledge would write - it has a bunch of different angles it could take but has no particular reference to draw on to determine which is true. Great human writers are often cataloguing their extra-literary experiences. How is ChatGPT supposed to be inspired by a beautiful sunset to capture it in a way that has never been done before? It is capable of the writing part, but the inspiration part is a lot harder for it.
Human creators might bristle and find it distasteful to have works automatically generated in a style they spent a long time honing, but it is most certainly not a violation of copyright.