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Authors demand credit and compensation from AI companies using their work without permission | OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta have been called out (www.techspot.com)
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Authors demand credit and compensation from AI companies using their work without permission | OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta have been called out::The letter, published by professional writers' organization The Authors Guild, is addressed to the bosses of OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI, IBM, and Microsoft. It calls out...

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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

But it doesn't copy full sentences. If they did, maybe they wouldn't be such black boxes. They build this utterly insanely huge matrix of data that are basically just weights for parameters and there's billions of parameters (which make up the entirety of what the LLM "knows" or "can know"). It's closest to text prediction. Even though it doesn't know full sentences, if the sentence was used enough times, it can predict the rest of it. It can even do that without having scraped a book, simply because it scraped something else (likely many something elses) that had the quote.