Reposted by Charles Graeber
“Anthropic had stolen our books because it needed them to create a commercial product, a generative A.I. chatbot designed specifically to write like us. But they didn’t ask us or pay us. That seemed unfair, and illegal. Piracy is a crime” Thanks for fighting for us all @charlesgraeber.bsky.social
nytimes.com
Opinion | Even Millions of Stolen Books Cannot Satisfy Ravenous A.I. Chatbots (Gift Article)
The model collapse scenario threatens to wipe out whatever gains chatbots like Claude enjoyed from being trained on books in the first place.
