Fiction writers are in an uproar about artificial intelligence creating new competition. They want large language models to either stop training on their work or for writers to be paid royalties.
It’s unclear what makes Nora Roberts, James Patterson or Margaret Atwood entitled to more protection and monopoly rights than a contract lawyer whose work can be automated. Perhaps it’s because they have the money to sue and the artistic hubris.
An Authors Guild open letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI and IBM — signed by the aforementioned writers and thousands of lesser lights — asks that software creators obtain their permission and pay fees to train large language models with their work even when copyright laws are not violated.
The problem for the computer coder, journalist, economist, industrial designer, artist and just about anyone earning a living manipulating symbols, numbers and words or putting colors on canvas is that these computer models are much more efficient than we are. We become more agile by applying those, and competition reduces our numbers in the workforce.
Prohibiting chatbots from reading her work or requiring royalties would be like requiring aspiring fiction writers at the University of Maryland to either not read her work or be taxed throughout their careers for anything that appears inspired by her style.
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