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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by throwaway290 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:17PM (#35278010)
Now any limits on how much of the book you can copy are irrelevant, since you can LLM yourself a brand new book by paying MS a few bucks and somehow there is no copyright violation in that process...
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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by rnk on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:30PM (#35280898)
What do you mean, can you ask chatGPT to write the contents of of some book, and it would just regurgitate them?
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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by throwaway290 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:29PM (#35282301)
No I mean prompt a sufficiently capable LLM based on what you wanted to read, chances are the LLM was trained on that book
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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by angelbar on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:48AM (#35286971)
Not exactly, but you can work with the AI to recreate a book asking about the topics and from there asking how to explain them one by one in the context of the book application
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