This has been reported of other major ai shops. It is a little chilling that they're going after rare books.
For the record, i don't much have issue with llms and such.
But... the wholesale destruction of printed books is a bridge too far.
For the record, i don't much have issue with llms and such.
But... the wholesale destruction of printed books is a bridge too far.
There’s no giant “used” section at Barnes and Noble. Libraries only have so much space and they have to cycle through books as the years go by. This is easily the best fate these books could have received.
Google Books tried. They lost. If you want this fixed, talk to your congressman, not Amazon.
And if they're not out of copyright why can they train on them without permission?
They probably argue that training is fair use, but if I take a film and compress it with a novel data compression codec and distribute it I'm violating copyright. LLMs are lossy compression for textual information.