• dan@upvote.au
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    1 year ago

    Said human presumably would have to purchase or lend a book in order to read it

    Borrowing a book from a library doesn’t earn the author any more profits for each time it’s lended out, I don’t think. My local library just buys books off Amazon.

    What if I read the CliffNotes and make my own summary based on that? What if I read someone else’s summary and reword it? I think that’s more like what ChatGPT is doing - I really don’t think it’s being fed entire copyrighted books as training data. There’s no actual proof LibGen or ZLib is being used to train it.

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      1 year ago

      authors do get money from libraries that buy the books. and in some places they even get money depending on how much its checked out.