One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence.

By Stephen King

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  • xapr [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I had heard some mentions of this before too, but didn’t recall the exact references. I went searching and found this recent study.

    • @Duxon@feddit.de
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      11 year ago

      Sure, it can plagiarize works it has been trained on. They didn’t show in the study, however, that this has occurred for copyright protected material like fiction books.

      • xapr [he/him]
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        21 year ago

        I saw a comment, probably on Mastodon, from an author saying that (I believe) ChatGPT had plagiarized some of his work verbatim. I don’t recall if it was a work of fiction or not, although for the purpose of copyright it doesn’t matter.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s trained on works of fiction just as much as non-fiction though. I think that from what I’ve heard, you can ask ChatGPT to write something in the style of particular writers? If it’s possible to give a very specific prompt for it to write something with the same plot points as a Stephen King story in the style of Stephen King, I wonder just how close it would look like the original?