Authors Sue Meta & OpenAI -- Class-Action Copyright Claim on Thousands of Books
A group of writers headed by celebrated novelist Michael Chabon and Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang are suing Facebook parent Meta as well as ChatGPT maker OpenAI, alleging in two separate suits that their artificial intelligence platforms ...
They'd have to prove the texts were even used, and then prove it's a copyright violation.
I'm just curious about the leap in logic it takes to go from previews-to-encourage-buying to give-AI-the-whole-book.
Neural Nets are almost never trained on the whole of something at once. Instead the thing is divided up into segments before the NN sees it. In the case of Latent Diffusion models, like Stable diffusion, the model is trained on 512x512 pixel segments of images. For Transformers based LLMs like ChatGPT, it would be trained on segments of text.