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 ...
A person reading a book versus inputting parts of the work into a machine are different things and should be treated differently.
I'm not convinced one way or the other, in any case, but it's incorrect to claim these are equivalent. Even if human creativity worked in the way a LLM does (arguable) a person is way different than software.
In my mind, the only crime you can commit with input is piracy, which is I guess what we are talking about. However, if the LLM came across those legitimately, I can't see it as piracy on the output side. Unless the result is literal plagiarism.