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I did in fact read the article. The author isn’t concerned about the book project. The author wants to use it as a springboard for complaining about AI fear, an
by jprete 3y ago
I did in fact read the article. The author isn’t concerned about the book project. The author wants to use it as a springboard for complaining about AI fear, and his argument fundamentally hinges on the claim that AI training is fair use. He’s claiming the book project is comparable to AI training.
I think the book project has a better claim to fair use than AI training does, although excerpting entire pages is maybe too far (but the word highlighting does feel like commentary).
- getabrainplz 3y agoIf I read the book, take notes about the number of times $x happened and later post them to my website, are you fine with that? if I automate that process with a script that uses regular expressions, are you fine with that? if I add a neural network to my script and it spits out the same numbers, are you still fine with that? hopefully you see the madness in your argument.
- jprete 3y agoI’m thinking specifically of generative AI’s fair use claims. I thought the book site (and all of your extension examples) was clearly fair use.