{"id":6699,"date":"2023-10-29T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbudgetalerts.com\/investment\/opinion-fiction-writers-demanding-money-from-ai-chatbots-are-lost-in-fantasy\/"},"modified":"2023-10-29T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T11:39:15","slug":"opinion-fiction-writers-demanding-money-from-ai-chatbots-are-lost-in-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inbudgetalerts.com\/?p=6699","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Fiction writers demanding money from AI chatbots are lost in fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like the\u00a0Luddites weavers in the 18th<\/sup>\u00a0century, who broke into factories to smash textile looms, these writers want special status to protect their employment from technological progress.<\/p>\n

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Chatbots built on generative AI technology such as OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and Alphabet\u2019s
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\n Bard can train by reading whatever is on the web \u2014 including newspapers, industrial diagrams, open-source software, paintings, textbooks, the classics and modern fiction.<\/p>\n

Those programs \u2014 with errors humans must correct \u2014 can write accounts of historical events and news stories if fed breaking information like press releases or economic reports. They can also write knockoffs of contemporary fiction.<\/p>\n

An\u00a0Authors Guild open letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI and IBM \u2014 signed by novelists Nora Roberts, James Patterson, Margaret Atwood and thousands of other writers \u2014 asks that software creators obtain permission and pay fees to train large language models with their work, even when copyright laws are not violated.<\/p>\n

Importantly, most of the literature that chatbots will read is in the public domain and on the internet. To the extent that sites post illicit copies, writers\u2019 complaints and copyright suits should be targeted at illegal postings and the owners of those sites.<\/p>\n

Students prepare for writing careers \u2014 be it for the newspapers or penning novels \u2014 by reading both classics and contemporary authors. They don\u2019t have to pay Atwood or Mark Twain\u2019s heirs to access their books at the library or pay royalties as they publish throughout their careers.<\/p>\n

The same goes for many professions \u2014 economists read Adam Smith, David Ricardo and contemporary journals available on the internet.<\/p>\n

Regarding fiction, when authors or programs\u00a0appropriate whole settings and characters\u00a0to generate knockoff work, writers have copyright protection and the courts to obtain redress.<\/p>\n

When chatbots generate work that is qualitatively distinct, those programs are no different than living writers or artists who elaborate on what preceded them. I doubt any successful contemporary author writer has not read Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle.<\/p>\n

The problem for the novelist, artist, industrial designer, economists, coders and most anyone earning a living manipulating symbols, words and numbers or putting images on canvases and screens is that AI programs are becoming much more efficient than we are.<\/p>\n

Read: <\/strong>How AI will make your job more satisfying and productive<\/p>\n

We learn to apply those programs to the repetitive elements of our work and focus more on creative aspects. But in the process, competition reduces our numbers in the workforce and some of us must move on to other lines of work. That\u2019s how new technology frees up labor, increases productivity and generates economic growth.<\/p>\n

For example, Grzegorz Rutkowski has\u00a0studied the great masters, such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Vermeer, as well as contemporary artists, to mimic their techniques\u00a0and become an in-demand illustrator of beasts and landscapes for the videogame industry.<\/p>\n

Now AI programs have mimicked him along with other popular artists, and he has joined a class-action suit against several of the companies that developed these systems. But it\u2019s hard to see how Dall-E 2 or Stable Diffusion, created by OpenAI and Stability AI, respectively, are any different than an aspiring art student or how Rutkowski embroidered on the masters\u2019 techniques to gain fame.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing for a chatbot to so appropriate language, characters and settings, and another to create something substantially new in a similar style.<\/p>\n

Prohibiting chatbots from reading work or requiring royalties on what those create would be like requiring aspiring fiction writers at Columbia University to either not read the work or be taxed throughout their careers for anything that appears inspired by an author\u2019s style. The price of success is that others will emulate \u2014 even critics will appropriate it to improve on it.<\/p>\n

The Authors Guild letter asserts\u00a0\u201cgenerative AI threatens to damage our profession by flooding the market with mediocre, machine-written books, stories, and journalism based on our work.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the rub \u2014 much of what prominent authors do is somewhat formulaic. Successful authors will continue to succeed by creating truly original work that strikes a chord with contemporary culture. Great writers carry notebooks or electronic devices to record what they see, or have remarkable memories, to create something new and vital. AI can differentiate, but I doubt it can inspire.<\/p>\n

Peter\u00a0Morici\u00a0is an economist and emeritus business professor at the University of Maryland, and a national columnist.<\/em><\/p>\n

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