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date: 2023-12-24, from: Locus Magazine
The US Copyright office has solicited comments on ‘‘copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence systems,’’ drawing thousands of responses. Comments from many authors, and organizations including the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers, argue that Large Language Models rely on mass copyright infringement in order to function at all. The Authors Guild said,
The leading LLMs today were ‘‘trained’’ on datasets of approximately 200,000 books, …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2023-12-24, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
When I write comics I always ask the artist what they like to draw and what (more importantly) they don’t like to draw. And then i do my best. But the story may have its own ideas.
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2023-12-24, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Fascinating article. (But “sister-and-law”?)
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date: 2023-12-24, from: Locus Magazine
The Future, Naomi Alderman (Simon & Schuster 978-16680-25680, $28.99, 432pp, hc) November 2023.
Early in Naomi Alderman’s latest novel The Future, the protagonist, Lai Zhen, falls in lust, and perhaps love. A sardonic survivalism vlogger who escaped ‘‘the fall of Hong Kong’’ and then did a significant amount of growing up in an offshore British refugee camp, she finds herself at a conference in London a couple of …Read More
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