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“Two prominent science fiction authors have decried the impact of AI on their
craft.
"I do not want or need a large language model to write my fiction for me. I
write fiction compulsively – before I was published I wrote for many years as a
hobbyist – so why on earth would I pay someone else to take my fun away?" wrote
Charles Stross in a Saturday post. Stross graciously mentioned
The Register
in his
Laundry Files novels.
"I maintain that any serious author should shun LLMs like the plague," he
added. "Did I mention the 'stealing' thing? This isn't hyperbole: I'm one of
the parties to the settlement in the class action lawsuit against Anthropic AI
for pirating eBooks to train their LLMs."
"That's not my only grievance, either. You may have noticed this blog
performing sluggishly or crapping out from time to time over the past few
months. That's because my server is old and feeble and periodically gets
swarmed by Chinese and other foreign botnets scraping data for training LLMs."
Stross labelled AI companies "absolute scum."”
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
