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arm32today at 5:12 AM1 replyview on HN

How do you feel about these LLMs potential piracy of your book?


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jonbodnertoday at 2:11 PM

It’s not potential, it’s actual. There are court cases and settlements and everything. I’ll be getting a little money from Anthropic.

As for how I feel, I think that LLM companies are incredibly short sighted. If I was them, I’d be funding newspapers, non fiction writers, fiction writers, and artists in general in exchange for the exclusive rights to index. They get content to improve their models and the world gets new knowledge and art. But considering the public good is passé and LLMs have done pretty well by stealing everything. This might be why I’m not a billionaire.