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NomNom@feddit.ukBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

www.theguardian.com

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

www.theguardian.com

NomNom@feddit.ukBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign
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    I’ll finally be able to finish a book!

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      It’s not even empty!

      It lists all the authors’ names in it.

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    they mad
    and they’re taking it out on the trees. What did the trees do to deserve that?

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      Surely they’re not actually printing them all?

  • andybytes@programming.devBanned
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    The real trick is to cheat honestly… Thats what everybody does now. Feed them garbage will the goof ball professor grade it or will it be given to AI. We need to eat the rich asap

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    Publishers usually get about 85 to 90% of the revenue on printed books, and 75% of the revenue on ebooks.

    If using copyrighted data becomes illegal, they will get 100% of the profit from selling their data most likely.

    This book should be aimed at them.

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    still cool protest though

  • Luminous5481 "Murder All Zionists" [they/them]@anarchist.nexus
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    I think I might up load this as an epub to my favorite trackers

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