Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use
It's almost like they need... A librarian. — https://www.404media.co/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : Like Amazon, Google Books has also been infected with lots of AI-generated g...
Legal experts offer mixed opinions about how earlier copyright and fair use cases could affect The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft
Nice Try Kate Downing / Law Offices of Kate Downing : The New York Times Launches a Very Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI Blake Brittain / Reuters : Microsoft, OpenAI hit with new lawsuit by a...
Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more
A conversation with Katherine Forrest Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere, large language models ingested truly staggering amounts of data to train their models. Mastodon: @jon@henshaw.social ...
A look at how 15-year-old Google Book Search has shrunk in ambition and scope, after prolonged legal battles
Google Books was the company's first moonshot. But 15 years later, the project is stuck in low-Earth orbit. — Books can do anything. As Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the froze...