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You can eke out large chunks of works from Google Books with the right queries too.
by scheeseman486 3y ago
You can eke out large chunks of works from Google Books with the right queries too.
- kmeisthax 3y agoYes, but Google Books is a search engine. It doesn't write books, it just tells you where a particular phrase might occur in those books. There's explicit caselaw allowing you to do this, extending back before Google was even a thing. For related reasons, Google Books also does not let you read the whole book - just the page the search match came from. OpenAI and other large language model developers are claiming they have a machine that can write books, but they also fed it shittons of books, and they can't account for where all that text went. At best they can say "well, it doesn't produce exact, verbatim copies of the training set all the time".
- scheeseman486 3y agoGenerative AI doesn't write books either, it's a machine spitting out results based on queries entered by a person. It has no personhood nor rights to ownership, in spite of what AI more crackpot advocates try to claim, it's more a very complicated pencil.