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Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America (lithub.com)
submitted 6 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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“We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”

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[–] Pro@programming.dev 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That will 100% stop Meta from using it for training their AI for sure.

/s

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It will at least stop AI training from claiming fair use.

[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think the thing about fair use is that you don't need permission

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

The key here is that this is a reasonable legal hurdle. It would be like the terms of service you never read when installing a piece of software.