2023-07-19 23:47:47
More than 8,000 American writers demanded that neural network developers pay them to train language models on their texts. A collective letter was sent to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Facebook founder (owned by Meta, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) Mark Zuckerberg, Stability AI founder Emad Mostak, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, writes The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The appeal was published by the Authors Guild, the largest professional organization for writers in the United States. Among the signatories are Pulitzer Prize winners Jennifer Egan, Michael Chabon, and Louise Erdrich. The appeal was also supported by the authors of The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown, the best-selling book The Hunger Games by Susan Collins and Margaret Atwood, who wrote the novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
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