Famous Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringements - Screenwriting Tips from Writer Michael Jamin

[@DamirSecki]

Ah Michael... let me preface first, that I spent 3000+ hours on building a startup that offers users tools for writing long form content leveraging LLMs... so I "come to this" biased already. But... I am, and will always be, PRO authors, creators, artists! And imagine, there was no convincing needed on your part, eventhough I am biased by default. And your "whole" video was built with solid arguments and delivery was on point... that is... right till the last one, when you kinda ruin it for me... so close, so close... The last argument (and delivery of it, ridiculing the viewers who side with computers) was off, in my opinion. And that is, because is not about computer rights vs human rights, AT ALL! It is about humans vs humans... or more precisely, authors vs people who want to use AI freely. So, from my perspective, I don't want MY RIGHTS to be infringed, that is, the rights to freely use AI, in its full capacity. I don't want some butt-hurt idiot sue openAI, anthropic, google and others, to limit the functionality of AI. Again, to be clear... that would be from my SELFISH perspective. And since I am human, and I care about fairness and absolutely understand the hard work and effort authors put into their craft I am all in favor in fair compensation... even not fair one (as in you guys being paid more that it would be fair). In the ideal world (which I absolutely think is possible, since these companies make enormous amounts of money - also spend a lot, but make much mroe) the authors would be paid very good, so they would be satisfied - the AI would work and deliver at full capacity, users would be happy... AND (this one is the most important - but really, really hard to do)... it would be obviously marked the AI work vs human ... I don't like counterfitting, nor the notion of it. Don't like to be deceived and would never want to deceive anyone. argument done.... but have some extra thoughts... you might continue reading if you done so far? :) it is related. So, yesterday I stunbled upon a tiktok about a girl looking for some inspirations and ideas to get a dragon tatoo. She was stating, that what she sees out there are either too cute ones... or too hard core... and there is not middle ground and she doesn't know what that would look like and was asking for some inspiration or ideas. Well, obviously there was influx of comments and naturally 2 camps formed... one was arguing to use AI for inspiration, the other to absolutely not (coz it is anti artists). I get it. Painters, photographers, song writers, music creators, writers, programmers, designers, etc... we are all soon be out of work... or at least waaaay less oportunities given, because AI is taking our place... I spent 30 years in learning programming, user experience, user interfaces, web development, architecture, data handling, and so much more... but all this knowledge and experience is soon going to be absolete... because nobody will hire me, because they can have all this, for much cheaper and faster with AI. And... tbh, is already happening, much faster than anticipating... Been of paying job since april, bills and dept piling up, moretgage payment missed, many bills missed and is taking huge toll on my mental health!!! but, I am still way more on the other camp's side - on the side of free use of AI. I want to be able to use AI that makes me 100x more productive... I don't want to spend a lot of money paying somebody to do design work for me, or programming work for me.... In my eyes... I now have the capability to do all these (with a tool like AI)... think AI democratizes knowledge and talents, and think this is to me waaay more exciting than being resentful towards it, because it is taking my job I spent 30+ years of sweat, and tears and countless sleepless nights on. Again - def. not saying authors are not entitled to defend their rights and am all for it! And I do wish they win and that a great way of compensation is agreed on... me, myself, I am paying at least $70/month for using AI... would love that at least 1/2 would go towards authors.

[@babyyoda3118]

All authors gets a lot of information from books and other sources that they store in their memory and uses to write amazing books! Should they be sued for that?

[@RawPowerComics]

Exactly. George R.R. Martin stole more from Michael Moorcock than AI has ever stolen from George R..R. Martin.

[@RawPowerComics]

Can't wait for these idiot authors to learn that training AI on their work isn't copyright infringement. No work was taken which is why they'll lose in court like the dumb artists did when they couldn't produce any work that was actually infringed upon as an example. Learning discreet techniques from authors and applying them to writing isn't theft. Saying it is islike saying that AI stole the D chord from you because you use a D chord in one of your songs that AI was trained on.

[@davidstorme8748]

You’re very animated. I can see you visualize what you say as quickly as you speak,(as evidenced by your constant need to ‘side-track’ w/interjected explications of particulars and nuances), but yes, to your point, your logic follows, only question is; who will A.I. hire to represent their Case?

[@magnusskallagrimsson6707]

I think a few local authors here in Vancouver have joined a lawsuit against OpenAI for using their works to train the AI.

[@RawPowerComics]

Thankfully they'll lose and have their case thrown out like the dumb artists who sued OpenAI did.