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News Creators’ Rights Alliance, including authors, agents, takes stance against AI

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E G Logan

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From The Bookseller today:
" An open letter on the "unlawful use of creators’ content" for Artificial Intelligence (AI) models has been sent to companies working in software development by the Creators’ Rights Alliance (CRA). This has been signed by members including The Society of Authors (SoA), the Association of Author’s Agents, the Authors’ Licensing (ALCS) and Collecting Society and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.

" The letter outlines that members of the CRA and the 500,000 creators they represent "do not authorise or otherwise grant permission for the use of any of their works protected by copyright and/or related rights (including performers rights) in relation to, without limitation, the training, development, or operation of AI models". "
 
Sadly, horse has bolted. Books3 has already been used as training data for most LLMs. Lawsuits will not reverse that and most likely won't prevail against the deep pockets of Meta etc.

Most realistic thing at this point would be a bloody good (and retrospective) licensing agreement with the titans. Lets say there are 200k books in Books3, all by different authors (unlikely). A one-off payment per title of $50k would equal $1bn payout right now. Totally within spectrum. OpenAI is now worth $80bn or more. Investing 1.25% of value to achieve that value seems fair to me.
 

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