Communications of the ACM
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Take Aim at AI Freeloading
The association is concerned about use without permission.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association is concerned that its members' works can be used to train AI models without permission under a fair use exception.
The SFWA, which represents over 2,500 published writers, "acknowledges the problem of generative AI scraping pirated material published as copy-protected ebooks by professional publishers, but SFWA additionally has the unique position of representing many authors who have fought to make their work available for free for human readers," the association said in a submission to the U.S. Copyright Office, one of more than 10,000 responses the office received in an inquiry into the clash between AI and copyright.
"The current content-scraping regime preys on . . . good-faith sharing of art as a connection between human minds and the hard work of building a common culture," the SFWA says. "Bluntly, many authors do not want their work taken for this purpose, and that cannot be ignored."
The SFWA wants creative workers to be adequately compensated when their work is used to train AI systems.
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