“We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”
I see this as the 2025 equivalent of the entertainment industry’s collective backlash against Napster back in the day. The issue will probably be decided by courts and legislatures, as before, and that legal decision will be transmuted into fierce morality, as before. The major difference is that in 1999 the legal combatants were a whole industry vs a handful of software developers and basically Lawrence Lessig, whereas with AI they’re all corporations with tons of money at stake. So the outcome could easily be very different this time, and our crowdsourced moral standards could follow suit.
And demand an additional disclaimer that “use of the contents of this book for AI training purposes is explicitely forbidden”.
That will 100% stop Meta from using it for training their AI for sure.
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It will at least stop AI training from claiming fair use.
I think the thing about fair use is that you don’t need permission
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.
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If there’s money to be made by releasing books created by Counterfeit Cognizance, those publishers will take advantage of it to its fullest… Count on it.
Nice try, but…
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Your points don’t get better just because you coined/found a new term
Unless readers want street cred reading only books from publishers who observe the request. There will be a market for “authentic” publishers along with the more liberal slop-friendly ones.
It’s too early for the Butlerian Jihad to start.
Everyone wants to protect their money under a capitalistic system. Where were you when all of the typewriter repairmen lost their jobs? Society and technology change and evolve over time.
AI written books have no value.
If it was not worth writing, it is not worth reading.
That’s not an equivalency. From written paper to typewriters and then to computers, writing has remained a product of the author. A typewriter repair shop would transition from mechanical to electronic typewriters and potentially then to computer repair. This is because it supports an evolving technology.
An author cannot transition to becoming a machine, because they cannot author what they don’t write, but a publisher can continue to publish anything that would make them money. So when human experience is boiled down to nothing more than the probabalistic order of the words written by authors who gave no consent to have their work absorbed and mutilated by an LLM, the only winner is a publishing house seeking cheaper labour than the human.
