My Books Were Used to Train AI

Everybody&#x27;s everything is being used to train &quot;AI&quot;.<p>That was the reason for twitter going logged-in-only. Multiple companies were trying to download all of twitter at the same time to train their models.<p>Reddit put walls up for the same reason, though as usual they lied about why they were making reddit worse.<p>That&#x27;s just the state of the Internet right now: If you have a large dataset of reasonably quality content, it&#x27;s going to get slurped up to train models.

Steven King writes &quot;I have said in one of my few forays into nonfiction (On Writing) that you can’t learn to write unless you’re a reader, and unless you read a lot. AI programmers have apparently taken this advice to heart.&quot;<p>Reminds me of: <i>After his father angrily asks him how he learned to use drugs, the son shouts, &quot;You, alright?! I learned it by watching you!&quot; As the father recoils from realizing the error of his own ways, a narrator then intones, &quot;Parents who use drugs, have children who use drugs.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;I_learned_it_by_watching_you" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;I_learned_it_by_watching_you</a>!

<i>This subject always makes me think of that most prescient novel, Colossus, by D. F. Jones. In it, the world-spanning computer does become sentient and tells its creator, Forbin, that in time, humanity will come to love and respect it. (The way, I suppose, many of us love and respect our phones.) Forbin cries, “Never!” But the narrator has the last word, and a single word is all it takes:</i><p><i>“Never?”</i>

The reverse would have been worrisome

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information wants to be free

Have any of you guys actually read a whole novel that was written by AI?

Wow. Stephen King wrote about my work. I’m a little star struck.<p>I didn’t have this on my 2023 bingo card.

He now have the perfect opportunity to write an story of sentient book souls being devoured by evil AIs.