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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Lawyers goings to have lots of gigs these days

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If they're being trained via Library Genesis and Z-Library, shouldn't those be the target of the suit for enabling/allowing that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems very improbable that they scraped a pirate website with forced registration and tight daily download limits (10 books a day max?) to get content that's often mislabeled and not presented in an homogeneous way.

Probably it's just using the excerpt from Amazon (which instead with paid API access is much more easy to access) as a prompt and build on it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tested by asking ChatGPT 3.5 specific questions about The Bedwetter, and it seems like it was not trained on the full text of the book. I asked it what is the first sentence, and then what is the second paragraph, and it gave plausible but incorrect answers. I asked it for the table of contents, and then if a specific chapter was in the book, and it said "my responses are generated based on pre-existing data and do not have real-time access to specific book content". I asked who wrote the foreward, and who wrote the afterward. It said Patton Oswalt wrote the foreward and that there is no afterward. In reality, Sarah wrote the foreward and God wrote the afterward.

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Table of contents and first chapter from Google Books.

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